Since the founding of the United Nations, global hunger has always been one of the concerned issues in ECOSOC. The world produces two to three times the amount of food that is needed to feed the number of people in the world, yet the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that about 815 million people suffer each day from hunger. The vast majority of these hungry people live in lower-income-regions, where poverty, conflict, and poor food distribution play a big role in contributing to this problem. Besides unequal food distribution, it is also concerning that while staggering amounts of food get thrown out in the developed world, people in underdeveloped regions have difficulties meeting their daily nutrition needs.

Without a doubt, global hunger has become one of the most intractable worldwide issues in the past two decades, calling for government actions and constantly motivating international non-governmental agencies to provide humanitarian aids. Due to the fact that a large population around the world is still suffering from this threat, further actions and possible solutions of ensuring equal food distribution and eliminate world hunger are what we hope delegates do discuss in this year’s conference.