Abere, this is for you.
Posted: 25 Aug 2021, 15:34
The info you have on Afghanistan and the absence of humanitarian disaster despite the prolonged war is wrong.
Revelations,
Thanks for sharing the information. Food insecurity and hunger is a global phenomenon. It is prevalent both in the developing and developed region of the world. However, the level of acuity differs from region to region and country to country. It is like comparing someone in Ethiopia with a mule as rich and someone in the West with the most expensive car. The quality of the poor in Afghanistan is quite different from the kind of poor in Ethiopia. Looking at the following statistics, you can see that hunger and food insecurity is prevalent in the United States as well.
Source: https://frac.org/hunger-poverty-america
HUNGER QUICK FACTS
---More than 35 million Americans live in households that struggle against hunger.
---One in ten (10.5 percent) of households in the U.S. experience food insecurity.
--Households in rural areas are experiencing considerably deeper struggles with hunger compared to those in metro areas, with higher rates of food insecurity overall (12.1 percent compared to 10.3 percent).
---One in eight households with children cannot buy enough food for their families.
---The food insecurity rate for households with children (13.6 percent) is considerably higher than the rate for households without children (9.3 percent).
---The rates of food insecurity were much higher for households headed by African Americans (19.1 percent — two and a half times --the rate for white non-Hispanic households (7.9 percent)) and Hispanics (15.2 percent — two times the rate for white non-Hispanic households (7.9 percent).
---The food insecurity rate is highest in the South, followed by the Midwest, West, and Northeast.
---The prevalence of food insecurity varied considerably by state, ranging from 6.6 percent in New Hampshire to 15.7 percent in Mississippi (for the three-year period of 2017–2019).