The Challenge of Hunger

Hunger is the most extreme manifestation of poverty and arguably the most morally unacceptable. In the globalized world of the 21st century, with more than enough food produced to feed all of its 6 billion inhabitants, there are still over 800 million poor suffering from chronic undernourishment (which is more than the entire population of Latin America or Sub-Saharan Africa). According to the recent estimate of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in 1999-2001 there were 842 million undernourished people in the world, including 798 million in developing countries, 34 million in countries with transition economies, and 10 million in high-income countries. See Figure 6.5 for the regional distribution of hunger and Data Table 2 for the shares of undernourished adults1 and malnourished children2 in individual countries. Note that three-quarters of the world’s hungry people live in rural areas and the majority of the hungry are women.......

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