Will World Hunger Ever be Eliminated?
Conclusion and references

Evidently, the two main causes of world hunger - disaster and poverty are unlikely to fade away on their own because the former is simply a fact of living on earth while the latter is a deep-rooted, self-propagating cycle. At the same time, while the main solutions to these problems, namely early-warning systems and foreign aid might help to reduce the problem of world hunger to some extent, the manifold economic and political complications that surround the giving of aid makes this unlikely to be a quick fix. Perhaps someday world hunger will be successfully eliminated since this is by no means impossible, but sadly this does not seem likely to happen within the next few decades.

References:
Jones, Gallagher & McFalls 1988 Social Problems - Issues, Opinions and Solutions. McGraw-Hill.
UN Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) report: The State of Food Insecurity in the World 1999
World Hunger Year website, quoting figures from the USDA, 1999
CNN report, New famine looms in Horn of Africa, 6 April 2000
UN World Food Programme website New Internationalist Magazine Rich and Poor - The Facts, issue 310/March 1999 Nikki an der Gaag
Poverty: Challenging the Myths, New Internationalist issue 310/March 1999 World Hunger Education Service Special Report: The right to adequate food is a basic human right
Hunger Notes Online, June 1998
World Hunger Year website Hunger, Poverty & Homelessness in the U.S.
New Internationalist Magazine Aid - The Facts, issue 285/November 1996

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