Hunger in the world

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King Global Earth & Environmental Sciences Corporation, World Hunger crisis

The world is blighted by hunger, with some countries having almost half their population unable to get enough food on a daily basis. Together, we can indeed eliminate the scourge of hunger.

“Together, we can indeed eliminate the scourge of hunger” – King Global Earth & Environmental Sciences Corporation

There are around 795 million people who are undernourished around the world, the majority of which are in Africa and Asia.

According to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation, since 1990, considering a global population growth of 1.9 billion, the reduction in the number of hungry people has been striking. However, progress towards reaching the UN’s food security targets in some countries has been hampered by challenging global economic conditions, extreme weather events and political instability.

Today, Haiti, Zambia and the Central African Republic have the highest rates of undernourishment in the world. In all, seven of the ten most undernourished countries in the world are in Africa. Progress has been hindered by slower and less inclusive economic growth, as well as political instability and in some countries Food insecurity has also been made worse by natural and human-induced disasters.

Of one hundred twenty-nine developing countries monitored, by 2015, only seventy-two had reached the one per cent hunger target that was laid out by the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. Important factors were the stable political conditions and economic growth, as well as the “social protection policies” for the vulnerable.

In developing regions, the prevalence of undernourishment, which measures the proportion of people who are unable to consume enough food for an active and healthy life, has declined to 12.9 percent of the population, down from 23.3 percent a quarter century ago.

We must be the Zero Hunger generation

There are moments in history when common icons of that control our lives, are replaced by an empathetic compassion for those who suffer, for those on the fringe of society: the poor, the hungry, the victims of natural disasters and human atrocities and those who live in fear. Every individual deserves to fully live his life. Most, if not all, of the world’s faiths adhere to some form of the “Golden Rule”, to treat other persons as well or better than one is treated, or to some form of exhortations like to proclaim justice, to free the oppressed, to feed the hungry, to care for the poor, and to clothe those who have none.

Every 10 seconds, a five years old or younger child dies of malnutrition.”

Today, 923 million people in the world go hungry every day, most of them in developing countries. Notwithstanding this fact, a third of the food produced in the world never makes it to the consumer.

By the year 2050, the world’s population is expected to grow from about 7.3 billion to 9.6 billion. The challenge we are now facing is to double our worldwide global food production to feed those extra 2 billion people yet to be born.

As the world’s population will grow, many countries will also improve their economy and because of the increase in income of many of their population, dietary changes are to be expected. More people will be able to afford and will want to consume products like meat, milk, eggs, fish, cooking oil and other products previously not affordable.

In order to make that much more product, animals are going to need to be fed more grain, courtesy of agriculture. Who is going to provide the feed-stuff for those animals and fish? It is a real opportunity for all the producers of the world.

King Global Earth & Environmental Sciences Corporation

King Global Earth & Environmental Sciences Corporation can help you feed the world in a profitable way. One of our goal is to educate consumers about the nutritional and other benefits of eating pulse crops, as well as to marshal the capabilities of agricultural research organizations around the world in developing new, improved varieties that will help further global food security and sustainable agriculture.

JMD

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Climate change is going to make inequality even worse than it already is

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Climate change, Inequality

A general view on the chimneys of the Hsieh-ho Power Plant in Keelung, northern Taiwan.   EPA/DAVID CHANG

In a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists demonstrate the full ramifications of a widely accepted theory about climate change: that it will almost certainly have a disproportionate impact on the poor.

Climate change won’t just hit the poor hardest, but it will exacerbate existing inequality within societies essentially slowing, halting or, in extreme cases, even reversing their economic growth.

Most of the efforts on quantifying damage from climate change are still just trying to improve on estimates of damage to the economy as a whole, without looking at its incidence across the income distribution. We need to start directing our efforts at quantifying the distribution.

The new paper fundamentally challenges the idea that all people in the future will be more affluent than previous generations. If climate impacts are borne mostly by the poor, then the future poor will, in fact, be very poor indeed.

Michel Ouellette JMD

King Global Earth & Environmental Sciences

Read full article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/12/07/climate-change-is-going-to-make-inequality-even-worse-than-it-already-is/?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_green

 

The Internship

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Generation i, Inequity, Unpaid Internship

Generation i

Temporary, unregulated and often unpaid, the internship has become the route to professional work

Sep 6th 2014 | From The Economist

Today, internship is becoming the first step to a white-collar career. What does this mean for employers, and for the next generation of employees?

Unpaid internships are becoming the norm.

These days, no one is going to pay if they don’t have to. Perhaps not coincidentally, the number of unpaid internships has grown just as hiring has become riskier, pricier and more complex. In recent years anti-discrimination and unfair-dismissal rules have been tightened, and minimum wages raised, in many rich countries. The growing cost of benefits such as pensions, health care and maternity leave makes employees more expensive. Interns have therefore become an appealing alternative.

Employers do not need to worry too much about how they give out internships, either. Internships can even be bought and laws are also being changed to illuminate the legal twilight in which interns operate. Some European countries are changing their laws to accommodate internships. In Italy a labour-market reform passed in 2012 mandated pay for interns of at least €300 per month, rising to €600 in some regions. Spain has introduced “training and apprenticeship contracts” of up to three years, under which workers are paid a lower wage while they learn the ropes. Some firms are now rethinking their unpaid schemes.

Last month Bell Mobility, a big Canadian mobile-phone firm, scrapped its unpaid internship programme, a year after a former intern had sued it (unsuccessfully) for back-pay. Some media companies have started paying their previously unpaid interns. Others are simply wording advertisements more carefully, rather than changing working conditions.

Change is slow. In the meantime internships, instead of being a foot in the door for youngsters of all backgrounds, can be a barrier to those who lack the connections to get them or the finances to forgo pay.

To be continued…

JMD

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Making Money

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Money, Personal Finance, Saving

The one million dollars question

Why is it that the only thing people are interested in today is earning more money?

Because people have to plan for their future, the future of their children,  including sending them to college, planning for their retirement, purchasing a home, purchasing  a car and while doing it, being able to support their entire family and themselves with whatever they have left after having paid their taxes. Not to mention, the security that having some money saved provides should a disaster occur.

That was easy!

JMD

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Protest rallies held in Brazil’s major cities

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2014 FIFA World Cup, BRASILIA, Cost of living, Poverty, São Paulo, Young protesters

More than 100,000 people took over the streets

BRAZIL – Demonstrations against rising costs of public transport and 2014 World Cup reflect anger over government policies.

Yesterday, Jun3 17^th, over 100,000 young protesters have massed across Brazil to demonstrate against the rising costs of both public transport and the 2014 World Cup to be held in the country. Protesters gathered in at least seven cities on Monday in what they hoped would be their biggest demonstrations yet against the increase in transit rates.

The protest movement is mainly made up of the middle class and is critical of the government’s decision to increase transit rates by 10 cents, to $1.60. Police in Sao Paulo estimated that 30,000 people rallied in the city’s biggest demonstration yet. Up to 20,000 people marched in Rio de Janeiro and another 6,000 took part in protests in the capital Brasilia.

Brazilians have long accepted malfeasance as a cost of doing business, whether in business or receiving public services. The government loses more than $47bn each year to undeclared tax revenue, vanished public money and other widespread corruption, according to the Federation of Industries of Sao Paulo business group. But in the last decade, about 40 million Brazilians have moved into the middle class and they have begun to demand more from government.

While almost one-fifth of the population lives in poverty, many Brazilians are angry that billions of dollars in public funds are being spent to host the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics while few improvements are made elsewhere.

JMD

 jmdlive@lefuturistedailynews.com

Read more:

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2013/06/201361721510894542.html

 

Au Brésil, une manifestation monstre contre l’augmentation du coût de la vie

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BRASILIA, Brazil, Coût de la vie, Manifestations populaires, São Paulo

BRASILIA – Des milliers de jeunes se massent aux portes du Parlement après des heures de manifestation.

Au moment où le Brésil connaît un ralentissement économique, des dizaines de milliers de Brésiliens descendent dans la rue pour protester contre l’augmentation du coût de la vie et la facture astronomique de la prochaine Coupe du Monde. La principale manifestation s’est tenue lundi à Rio de Janeiro où 100 000 personnes se sont rassemblées, alors que 65 000 se rassemblaient à Sao Paulo, la capitale économique du pays.

JMD

 jmdlive@lefuturistedailynews.com

 

Pour en savoir plus:

http://bigbrowser.blog.lemonde.fr/2013/06/18/changebrazil-suivre-les-manifestations-au-bresil-en-ligne/

Will China be the next superpower of the world?

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China, The next superpower of the world, USA

Will China be the next superpower of the world?

Yes they will!

Hong Kong — Thousands of senior Chinese officials are gathering in Beijing for a week of lengthy speeches and meetings. At the end of this once in a decade process, The Communist Party’s 18th National Congress, a new set of top Chinese leaders will be revealed to the world. China’s prospective leaders, rise to the top by showing how loyal they are to the incumbent. What they will do when they rise to the top, that they will not show or tell.

While rumors continue to circulate about possible democratic reforms in the wake of the recent huge political scandal involving the former senior party official Bo Xilai, and widespread corruption among officials throughout the country, some say they expect measures to reshape China’s huge economy. Others predict the army may have a stronger influence over territorial disputes with neighbors like Japan.

What we do know is that in the recent years China’s economy has continued to grow, lifting tens of millions of people out of poverty and that China is now the world’s second-biggest economy and closing fast on the United States.

Do the next leaders of the Chinese nation have plans to be the first superpower of the world?

They will not tell but that is exactly where they are heading.

JMD

jmdlive@live.ca

On this topic: http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/08/world/asia/china-leadership-change/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

How much money is enough not to be homeless?

My name is not Misha Barton but I can’t pay my rent anymore

Everywhere in the world, middle-class families continued to suffer in the aftermath of the Great Recession and even today, with a full-time job, many still cannot afford to pay their rent.  All over the world, income inequality is now widening. While the poor are not getting any poorer, – this could not be possible – the rich are getting richer and those in the middle classes are the ones pinched really hard. Numbers of them are now on the verge of poverty or joining the ranks of the already poor.

A lot of this increase in inequality is driven by changes initiated at the very top of the alimentary chain. The small fish is too small to be eaten by the big fish and the medium size fish, while too small to defend himself, is still too big to hide. This is what is called the squeeze in the middle position, the position where the lower-middle class is always whacked.If your government doesn’t hit you, don’t worry, your employer will.

Some groups are even hit harder than others. Those ages 35 to 44 and 55 to 64 are now suffering a severe drop in income and many of them now have to find either a second job or come out retirement working full-time only to pay the rent.

JMD

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USA Election 2012: What about the poor?

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Michel Ouellette JMD, Mitt Romney, Obama, Poverty, USA Presidential Election

To strengthen or to overhaul the American nation’s safety net?

President Obama and challenger Mitt Romney have vastly different views on how to help the 46.2 million Americans in poverty and the more than 30 million people who are near poor.

Between 2008 and 2011, In the United States, the number of people in poverty jumped 16%, the Medicaid rolls jumped 23.5% while food stamp enrollment soared 46%.

Just who is elected president matters a great deal for the poor.

JMD

jmdlive@live.ca

Reference:  http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/05/news/economy/obama-romney-poor/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

The 2007economic crisis aftershock

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2015, 2019, Economic downfall, European Union

The Next Global Financial Meltdown is on its way

With the consequences of the last global economic crisis showing little sign of ending, Greece beginning to default on its debt, stock markets remaining volatile, food and energy prices continuing to rise and the real estate bubble about to burst in China, threatening to plunge the world into further chaos, the Next Global Financial Meltdown is on its way.

In 2007, in a once-in-a-century type of event, the world experiences the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression. First came the dotcom bubble, then the housing bubble that resulted in a global planetary financial meltdown. For the next eight years, the world economic situation is just going to get even worse: much worse.

The American Federal Reserve financial market manipulation and the incredible irresponsibility and bad judgment of the United State government and European Union combined will make banana republic inflation levels inevitable. In the next few years, we will see up to 50% unemployment rates worldwide, up to 90% stock market crash, and up to 100% annual global inflation rates. Get ready to sell everything, and pile into gold and inflation-linked securities. Get ready to cash out your life insurance policies and dump your stocks.

For the next three years, unemployment rates will be increasing drastically throughout the world and remain high up to the year2019, with extremely weak consumer spending and governments everywhere faced with lower tax revenues. Meantime, oil and food prices will continue to rise while gold and silver will reached unprecedented highs.

As a result of the Wild West Casino mentality which has characterised investment banking over the last two decades, combined with a lack of regulation. The subprime financial market was a time bomb waiting to go off and it did.

The economic crisis which began in 2007 is now showing little sign of ending if any and, for years to come, the United State will continue to spiral out of control. During the years 2015 to 2019, while China will be facing the fallout of a massive real estate bubble, the United States of America will see its credit rating further downgraded and in an unprecedented move, the dollar will be losing its status as the world’s reserve currency.

With the United State paralysed by a political deadlock over the basket of currencies in the process of replacing the dollar, the contagion affecting the euro zone, initially confined to Greece, will eventually spread throughout the continent, leading to the collapse of numerous banks, corporations and financial institutions. Bailout after bailout initiated by the European Union and industrialized countries will fail to provide an adequate long term solution to the new Global economic downturn.

The world being now mired in a full-blown depression, with no sign of a light at the end of the tunnel, with protests in many countries, a global movement for change is now emerging that will climax in the years 2015 to 2018. For the years to come, get ready to see and experience extremely volatile market conditions and frightening changes in our modern society at large. Society as we know it know is about to change.

While the gutting of our social programs is now creating a dangerously polarised society, 2019 will be mark by widespread riots and protests throughout the world.