11 Facts About Hunger and Famine

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1. Each year, 3 million children under five die of preventable, hunger-related causes.^[UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation. "Levels & Trends in Child Mortality, 2014." UNICEF, 2014. Web Accessed February 18, 2015.]
2. Around the world, 805 million people are hungry--nearly 1 in 9 globally. Host a food drive in your community to provide food to those in need. Sign up for Supermarket Stakeout.^[Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN. "The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014." FAO, 2014. Web Accessed May 1, 2015.]
3. It costs just $0.25 daily to provide a child with all the nutrients they need to grow up healthy.^[World Food Programme. "Two Minutes to Learn About School Meals." WFP, 2012. Web Accessed May 1, 2015.]
4. Asia has the largest number of hungry people (over 500 million) but Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest prevalence (23.8% of population).^[Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN. "The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014." FAO, 2014. Web Accessed May 1, 2015.]
5. 66 million primary-school-age children attend classes hungry across the developing world, with 23 million in Africa alone.^[World Food Programme. "Two Minutes to Learn About School Meals." WFP, 2012. Web Accessed May 1, 2015.]
6. The World Food Programme calculates that $3.2 billion is needed every year to reach all 66 million hungry children.^[World Food Programme. "Two Minutes to Learn About School Meals." WFP, 2012. Web Accessed May 1, 2015.]
7. If women farmers had the same access to resources as men, the number of hungry people in the world could be reduced by up to 150 million.^[Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN. "The State of Food and Agriculture 2010-2011 Women in Agriculture: Closing the gender gap for development." FAO, 2014. Web Accessed May 1, 2015.]
8. Hunger is number one on the list of the world’s top 10 health risks. It kills more people every year than AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined.^[UNAIDS. "Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic." UNAIDS, 2010. Web Accessed May 1, 2015.]
9. By 2050, climate change and erratic weather patterns could push another 24 million children into hunger, most of them contained to sub-Saharan Africa.^[Action Aid. "On The Brink: Who's the best prepared for a climate and hunger crisis?" Action Aid, 2011. Web Accessed July 29, 2014.]
10. Hunger is the single biggest solvable problem facing the world today. 2.2 billion people live on less than $2.00 a day.^[United Nations Development Programme. "United Nations Human Development Report: Beyond scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis." UNDP, 2006. Web Accessed February 18, 2015.]
11. The number of people living with chronic hunger has declined by 130 million people over the past 20 years.^[Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN. "The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014." FAO, 2012. Web Accessed May 1, 2015.]