Hunger Lives Next Door

Food Poverty is 'ability to obtain healthy affordable food'. Families do not have enough food to meet the energy and nutrient needs of all of their members. Yet there is plenty of food in the world for everyone. The problem is that hungry people are trapped in severe poverty. They lack money to buy enough food to nourish themselves. Being constantly malnourished, they become weaker and often sick. This makes them increasingly less able to work, which makes them even poorer and hungrier. This downward spiral often continues until death occurs for them and their families. Many people in developing countries go hungry, suffering from starvation or malnutrition. If there is little rainfall, they cannot grow enough food.

In some countries, there is no work and people can't afford to buy food.

In other countries, wars prevent people from farming and producing food. It is then difficult to get food to the people who need it.