The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?
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People are hungry for what's happening right now in the world.
Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.
People are hungry not because there aren't enough farmers or food, but because they don't have access to it or can't afford it.
Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons.
Three-quarters of the world's population doesn't have enough to eat!
Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve.
There is no reason, in the capital city of the richest country in the world, for anybody to be hungry.
More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
In many places in the developed world, we eat or waste probably twice as many food calories as we really need. We're wasteful of food. We ship all over the world. We're now realizing that generating the energy to ship the food around the world is also ruining our climate.
Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?
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