Will World Hunger Ever be Eliminated?
What is World Hunger?
How bad is the problem?

World hunger refers to the multitudes of people presently facing the risk of an insufficient (quantity) or inadequate (quality) food supply, something known as food insecurity. This problem has led to detriments from the insidious, such as stunted growth and a greater risk of contracting disease, to the obvious, namely starvation and death.

So, how widespread is world hunger and how great is the problem anyway? The World Food Programme (WFP) of the United Nations (UN) reports that daily, over 800 million people go hungry while the Hunger Site says that every 3.2 seconds, someone in the world dies of hunger. Most of the world's hungry (over 40%) are concentrated in China and India, with the rest found mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America . And even developed nations such as the USA and Britain have millions of hungry people within their borders.

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