Chronic hunger or food insecurity is as devastating to families, communities and countries as is famine. Chronic hunger claims more victims than famine each year by far. Effects of chronic hunger include
Approximately 795 million people in the world are chronically malnourished. That number is down 167 million over the past decade and 216 million less than in 1990-1992.One in every nine people on our planet go to bed hungry each night.
Hunger kills more people each year than AIDS, malaria and