{"id":45202,"date":"2015-01-16T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humanity.life\/?p=45202"},"modified":"2026-10-30T13:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T13:02:09","slug":"poverty-alleviation-and-sustainable-livelihood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humanity.life\/?p=45202","title":{"rendered":"Poverty alleviation and sustainable livelihood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Almost one in four Africans is hungry: at 23.2%, the population of Africa has the highest rate of under-nourished people. A total of 233 million people are affected by hunger and every third child in Africa suffers from the effects of malnutrition (e.g. growth inhibition or mental underdevelopment).<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to World Bank estimates, 47 to 50% of the total population live below the poverty level. This region is thus the poorest region in the world.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The causes of the hunger are manifold: environmental disasters, war, the effects of climate change, a rapidly growing population, public debt or diseases such as AIDS and malaria.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost one in four Africans is hungry. A look at the causes of hunger and poverty in Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanity.life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanity.life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanity.life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanity.life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanity.life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/humanity.life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45280,"href":"https:\/\/humanity.life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45202\/revisions\/45280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanity.life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanity.life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanity.life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanity.life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}