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The Right to Food
Food is a human right
In 1948, when the UN’s general assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the world’s countries agreed that food is a human right.
Even though enough food is produced to feed the world’s population, daily, gruelling hunger remains one of the most basic conditions for people in many poor countries. And every 7th human being in the world is starving.
Hunger is destructive for human and social development
90 % of all hunger-related deaths are caused by chronic undernourishment. Famines and wars are only responsible for 10 %. Hunger is the greatest obstacle for development, progress, prosperity and peace in the world.
Food shortages and chronic undernourishment reduces human beings’ physical, mental and spiritual development and prevents them from leading an active social life.
In the long term, this means that a given society loses its human resources.
This is how DanChurchAid fights hunger
Many things can cause hunger. That is why DanChurchAid fights hunger in various ways.
The work focuses on four main areas
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Emergency relief aid
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Long-term prevention of hunger
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Working for poor people’s rights
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Advocacy – political work
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