5 percent of the world’s population lives on less than $1.90 a day. Those people are considered to be in extreme poverty. Poverty is caused by a variety of factors, including hunger, a lack of access to clean water, and poor healthcare systems. Various cooperative improvements are needed to resolve poverty.

How many people are suffering from hunger? According to current estimates, about 690 million people, or 8.9 percent of the global population, are hungry. The World Food Program shows that 135 million people are chronically malnourished due to man-made conflict, climate change, and economic drop.

In 2019, 47 million children under the age of five were affected by wasting or acute undernutrition. These conditions make children too thin and weak. They increase the risk of death as well as poor development and learning capacity.

Food and humanitarian aid must be needed in the most vulnerable areas as soon as possible. To avoid a hunger crisis, agricultural productivity and long-term food production must be increased.

Bangladesh is a small country, but it has a large population. The country is struggling to sustain and improve its current food production to feed its rapidly rising population.

Estimates show that Bangladesh will run out of agricultural land by 2080 if the current trend continues. Every year, the country loses approximately 80 thousand hectares of cultivable land due to various activities that affect people’s lives. This will have an impact on its food production.

Additionally, Bangladesh’s agriculture system is still outdated and unscientific. It makes it harder to produce food.

In Bangladesh, population growth is the primary cause of famine.

In 1903, the Wright Brothers achieved the first successful flight. They experimented with many things and made a lot of mistakes before this flight. However, they never gave up. They looked for a solution as soon as they spotted a problem. The brothers understood that they needed to learn from their mistakes. They were not afraid of failure and welcomed it.

I learned two important lessons from the stories. First, we should not hesitate to come up with new and unique ideas. The key to starting off is to use our imagination. Second, I learned that failure is an opportunity to learn. Doing something and failing is better than doing nothing and learning nothing.

This is the message I want to leave with you: have the courage to imagine and the courage to act in your personal and public lives.

Thank you for listening.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), otherwise known as Global Goals, were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as a universal call to end poverty, protect the environment, and ensure that the human population enjoys peace and prosperity by 2030. There are 17 SDG themes, each striving to balance social, economic, and environmental sustainability.

People who do not get enough nutrition will lack the energy to work. Their immune systems will also be weakened as a result of malnutrition, making them more vulnerable to illness.

Malaria, diarrhea, and respiratory infections (pneumonia) are easily avoidable and curable in countries with developed healthcare systems. But in countries with poor systems, those diseases can be fatal, especially in young children. Traveling far to clinics or paying for medicine can push a family into extreme poverty.

Furthermore, over 2 billion people lack access to safe drinking water. Water infrastructure issues, such as sanitation and hygiene facilities, may worsen the situation.

Droughts and flooding caused by climate change may result in hunger. Its consequences contribute to the poverty cycle.

Many of the world’s poorest people rely on farming, hunting, and gathering for food and income. Therefore, when climate change or natural disasters leave millions of people hungry, recovery becomes even more difficult.

Unemployment caused by conflict or illness can be compensated for with cash and loans. If a harvest is lost due to a natural disaster, food storage can help. However, these resources are frequently unavailable to people living in extreme poverty. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, for example, natural resources have been taken due to colonial rule. This has led to land conflicts, and people have been forced away from their source of food and income.