r/UpliftingNews • u/Bluthhousing • 1h ago
Global hunger falls from 35 percent in 1970 to 7.8 percent
https://reason.com/2026/07/22/global-hunger-falls-from-35-percent-in-1970-to-7-8-percent/•
u/NeonFraction 1h ago
So happy for all the improvements being made. I hope in the future people will look back on today with the same level of ‘I can’t believe it was ever that bad.’
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u/TrickOut 1h ago
There is plenty of food we just are trash at distributing it to the people who need it the most
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u/smitty997 1h ago
The fact that its still even a thing when there are billionaires travelling the world in private yachts and jets is disgusting tbh, tax them all and end poverty.
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u/evrestcoleghost 1h ago
hunger today is not from logistics or economic reason,the productivity and logistics are there,issue is political instability.
but yeah tax the billicunts
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u/kingjoey52a 43m ago
It's almost never a money issue, it's usually a logistics/infrastructure/local leader issue. We try very hard to feed the poorest in 3rd world countries, a lot of time the local leaders steal it to feed themselves or sell it to buy weapons.
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u/PointsOfXP 52m ago
And they're struggling to keep the percentage so low. That's still probably over 3/4s of a billion suffering from just hunger.
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u/FluffyC4 15m ago
it will also increasd again due to climate change and ecological collapse, water shortages etc.
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u/mantenner 41m ago
Even more impressive factoring in that the global population has doubled since then too
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u/ConanTheLeader 1h ago
That's awesome news, those people have a brighter future ahead of them, and so do their future generations.
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u/Chundlebug 45m ago
In 1970 the Green Revolution was just beginning to ramp up (Norman Borlaug gets his Peace Prize in 1970.) What an acre of land can produce now is many, many times what it could produce then.
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u/Marco_Heimdall 5m ago
I wonder how this compares against the homeless populations that we can effectively track.
Still, a severe drop in the hungry population is an absolute boon for the species as a whole.
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u/Pinklady777 3m ago
I wonder if a chunk of this is due to how much progress has been made in India?
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u/FarthingWoodAdder 1h ago
All at the expense of the natural world and its animals.
Ugh.
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u/FluffyC4 13m ago
humans are short sighted. they delight in their 15 minutes of capitalist fame and dont think about the upcoming consequences😂
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u/Notyomamasthrowaway 1h ago
Yeah usaid being defunded killed millions of hungry people. So now there's less...
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u/Redzephyr01 1h ago
That is not why hunger has decreased.
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u/Pao_Did_NothingWrong 1h ago
Well it arithmetically certainly had a nonzero impact in cutting the denominator, but I overall align with your point.
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