READING #5 - Charting a New Path to Eliminating Hunger

Chapter 1 of State of The World was an interesting read. Many of us take for granted the availability of food in this country. Most Americans are unaware or have just never thought about the food situation in other countries.  I was surprised at some of the statistics in this chapter.  It is refreshing to see that the number of undernourished people in the world dropped from 1020 million in 2009 to 925 million in 2010. However, there is still much more that can be done. The chapter covered some innovative ways that hunger is being combated in these countries such as urban gardening. Urban gardening seems like a promising method to produce crops for the poor in highly urbanized areas where poor families cannot afford food. Probably the most important contribution we can make to these developing countries is educating them on agricultural practices so they can sustain themselves.  Methods such as urban gardening and educating the poor on agricultural practices are the some of the first steps in combating world hunger, but there is still much that can be done.