Sentences with phrase «widespread hunger»

And there are more pressing concerns, including widespread hunger and poor health.

In September, he announced a plan to give rabbits to families suffering from food shortages in order to help address widespread hunger.

Felling gives results of a recent survey indicating that U. S. teachers are worried about widespread hunger among students and its effects on learning.

Last month, Josette Sheeran, the executive director of the World Food Program (WFP), warned that, as a consequence of widespread hunger, Niger was in danger of «losing a generation.»

This is already causing widespread hunger and malnutrition today.

Burning food crops for power is the worst use of scarce land imaginable, and has already led to a situation where there is a direct conflict between food and energy: a significant proportion of the food - price spike in 2008 (and a further spike in early 2011), which led to widespread hunger and bread riots in many poorer countries, was driven by crops being withdrawn from international markets to produce biofuels for transport.

Cooler climatic conditions and an excess of rain had led to failed crop harvests and widespread hunger, in addition to large numbers of people living in crowded — and already pathogen - filled — medieval cities.