No More Hunger Project

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Why Are We Fighting for No More Hunger?

Project 9

Definition of Hunger:

Hunger is an uncomfortable or painful physical sensation caused by insufficient consumption of dietary energy. It becomes chronic when the person does not consume a sufficient number of calories (dietary energy) on a regular basis to lead a normal, active and healthy life. Hunger is more complicated than empty bellies—interconnected issues of poverty, inequality, conflict, climate change, gender discrimination, and weak government and health systems all play a role in driving hunger.

Hunger is defined by the United Nations as the periods when people experience severe food insecurity—meaning that they go for entire days without eating due to lack of money, access to food, or other resources. Hunger is the distress associated with lack of food. The threshold for food deprivation, or undernourishment, is fewer than 1,800 calories per day. Undernutrition goes beyond calories to signify deficiencies in energy, protein, and/or essential vitamins and minerals. Malnutrition refers more broadly to both undernutrition and over nutrition.

Types of Hunger In Our Communities:

Food insecurity: A lack of access to an affordable, nutritious diet.
Food insufficiency: A household’s reported of not having enough to eat in certain times, often, in the last week. There are different levels of food insufficiency, including low, very low, and marginal.
Acute hunger: Also known as famine, this is the most extreme form of hunger that has occur during the protracted crises like internal conflicts due the consequence of the civil wars, droughts as a result of unsuccessful rainy season, and human disasters perpetrated by criminal soldiers that burned all crops and threatening people in their agricultural farms.
Hidden hunger: Also known as micronutrient, this type of undernutrition occurs when someone doesn’t get enough micronutrient like zinc, iodine, and iron to support their health and development.

The Reasons & Root Cause of Hunger in Our Communities:

What happens when people go hungry?

Prolonged periods of food insecurity can lead to malnutrition, which occurs when the body lacks sufficient vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients needed to thrive.

Why Does Hunger Exist in our Communities?

Inequity: Inequality between rich and poor where power determines who eats and who goes hungry, who lives and who dies.
Waste of resources and Climate Change: The climate crisis is driving hunger and malnutrition around all our communities. When resources such as water, and lands became exhausted. Expansion of deserts, soil erosion, water scarcity and extreme weather phenomenon as a result of climate change are becoming particularly apparent in our communities that have suffered from hunger and poverty.
Internal Conflicts and Wars: Violences and armed conflicts cause to farmers flee, leaving them unable to cultivate their fields. Frequently they lose all their possessions. Roads and agricultural infrastructures such as irrigation facilities are destroyed. Due to the limited security, trade also suffers, food becomes scarce and unaffordable.
Natural Disasters: Weather extremes have always let to hunger crisis in our communities, where droughts destroyed harvests that has weaken the resilience of the population of Nuba Mountains. This forced our people to use their reserved seed supplies for cultivation and slaughter their cattle which are type of their economic resource.
Disruption of Emergencies: Humanitarian blockades enforced by successive government elites have destroy the livelihood of millions of people.
Poverty: Hunger is above all consequences of poverty, where most people in our community are poor and they have insufficient money for food, they cannot provide for their own health, and they also cannot invest in education for their children.
Dirty Water & Unsafe Sanitation: Due to unclean water, massive illnesses like diarrhea, parasites, and intestinal inflammation have prevented our children from absorbing key nutrients and make them more susceptible.
Poor governance: Lack of strategy to agriculture in communities in a such way that no one goes hungry.

Impacts of Hunger on Our Communities:

Food insecurity can have many negative effects on communities, including:

Health: Hunger can lead to malnutrition, which can cause chronic conditions like heart disease and diabetes, as well as stunted growth and limited mental and emotional development. Malnourished children may also experience cognitive delays, behavioral problems, and difficulty concentrating. In extreme cases, famine or malnutrition can lead to increased mortality rates.
Mental health: Hunger can also lead to depression, anxiety, and stress, as well as social isolation, stigma, and shame.
Economy: Food insecurity can lower productivity and increase sickness, which can impact the broader economy. Communities with high rates of food insecurity may also have overburdened healthcare systems, which can contribute to higher costs that hurt local economies.
Social unrest: Hunger can lead to social unrest due to dissatisfaction with the government or economic instability, which can contribute to civil wars or violent conflicts.