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  Food After decades of steady decline, world hunger has slowly been on the rise since 2015. An estimated 821 million people in the world suffered from hunger in 2018. If nothing changes, the immense challenge of achieving the Zero Hunger Target by 2030 will not be achieved. At the same time, overweight and obesity continue to increase in all regions of the world, according to The state of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2019.  How swiftly the world market for food can change could be observed in the mid-2000s. For two decades, leading up to the millennium, global demand for food had increased steadily, along with growth in the world’s population, record harvests, new technologies, improvements in incomes, and the diversification of diets. Food prices continued to decline through 2000. However, in 2004, prices for most grains began to rise. Rising production could not keep pace with the even stronger growth in demand. Food stocks became depleted. And then, in 2005, fo...
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Follow Your Dreams.......

  Dreams are aspirations that reflect a human's wants and desires in life. They are a fundamental element that drives human beings to achieve the impossible. Dreams have the ability to motivate oneself to set goals and ideals for the future.  Follow your dreams because it is an inspirational mainstay which keeps you going in life. Nothing can give you satisfaction and contentment in life except pursuing your dreams. 
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The power of Positive Thinking........

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Gender Based Violence

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 What is Gender?  ‘Gender’ refers to the socially-constructed roles of and relationships between men and women. Gender concerns men and women, including conceptions of both femininity and masculinity. The difference between ‘gender’ and ‘sex’ is that the latter refers only to biological differences.  Gender does not mean focusing solely on women or females, but rather on the inequalities  between males and females, and should not be confused with feminism or women’s studies.  Analyses of gender differences often show a disadvantaged and  weaker position of women and girls  in social, political, economic, legal, educational and physical issues. This is why there is a tendency for gender discussions and interventions to focus on correcting these imbalances by specifically targeting women and girls. “ Gender  is a socially constructed definition of women and men. It is not the same as sex (biological characteristics of women and men) and it is not th...
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