hbhsmunschmadagascarpovertyandhunger

**Michelle Luo**
 * Period 0**
 * Madagascar**

During the year 2003, there were over two billion people in the world fighting for survival. Rural ares where 77% of poor people in developing countries live are mostly affected by this issue. It was observed that economic limitation was always present in most cases of armed conflicts and civil wars since wealth is unevenly distributed in these areas. More than 70% percent of the population in Madagascar lives below the poverty line, and 50% percent of children under the age of three suffer growth due to a diet. Over the past 35 years, at least 50 natural disasters affected more than 11 million people. The most recent one was in February of 2008, when it struck north-eastern Madagascar affecting 330,000 innocent people. The eastern and southern regions are the most exposed to seasonal food insecurity; food insecurity affects 65% of the population. The World Bank estimates that 70% of Malagasy live on less than $1 per day. In the year of 2008, the Ministry of Education assisted 620,630 people in Madagascar at a cost of $19.2 million in US dollars.
 * __Background/ Country Policy__:**

 The United Nations has established that poverty and excluded people exist in all regions of the world; therefore, there is a diversity of reasons why people cannot satisfy their basic needs. Two conditions that are concluded are social and individual that limits the possibility of access to resources, knowledge, and benefits to fulfill human needs. The United Nations has also established that the region of Latin America and the Caribbean is the most urbanized of the developing world. This is the result of the great migration that occurred in the last twenty years. Three fourths of the population lives in cities, where 40% of the total population is poor, with a limited access to water, polluted air, bad sanitation, and serious health problems.
 * __UN Involvement__:**

Madagascar thinks that countries with an abundance of food can help supply other nations with goods to feed the people in hunger and not let them starve to death. Also, genetically altered food that can produce more vitamins should be provided to help the people strengthen their health. After discussing this issue with the World Bank, we are confident that they can help fund for the food necessary. With all the cooperation, many lives can be saved from hunger.
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