The hunger, poverty and silence: The synergy of threats to development and progress

With the spurt of the new global order in terms of liberalization, privatization and globalization that got off to a swash bucking debut in the decades of 90’s, the concept and perception of poverty and hunger have undergone a sea-change. Across the world, one billion people are now reeling under abject poverty and hunger. This is basically a threat to the human kind for their mere biological existence. Poverty is now even hatched a wider expanse of impacts over the geography of hunger. Around 895 million people across the world have been plunged to BPL (Below Poverty Line) status. Now these two problems are so close and cognate that no further explanation is at all essential to elicit their inter-relationship. Across the world, poverty now is not only a concern but a threat to sustainable development subsequent to the Millennium Declaration made by UNO. Poverty has bestowed no sign of reduction, it is increasing unabatedly. Whatever benefits or devidence are created somehow and somewhere are being extorted by poverty and ultimately a more impoverished world is scrambling. The root causes of poverty are reticulated with two more barriers to development and these are hunger and silence. More than 1 billion people across the world are touching the bed at night having no food in the stomach and more than 80% of Indian women are suffering from anaemia. Every 3 seconds one child is bidding goodbye to this world because of hunger and malnutrition.