1. About 24,000 people die every day from hunger or related causes. The data is improved compared to 35,000 people a decade ago to 41,000 or twenty years ago. Three-quarters of the deaths involving children under five years of age.
2. Today, 10% of children living in developing countries die before their fifth birthday. Again, the figure has improved compared to 28% of fifty years ago.
3. Famine and wars cause just 10% of hunger deaths, although these are the causes of which we hear most often about. Most of hunger deaths are caused by chronic malnutrition. The families simply can not get enough food. This in turn is due to the extreme poverty.
4. Besides death, chronic malnutrition causes impaired vision, a permanent state of fatigue that causes a low ability to concentrate and work, stunted growth and an extreme susceptibility to disease. Extremely malnourished people are unable to maintain even basic vital functions.
5. An estimated 800 million people worldwide suffer from hunger and malnutrition, about 100 times the number of people who actually die from it each year.
6. Often, poorest require minimum resources to be able to grow sufficient edible products and become self-sufficient. These resources can be: good quality seeds, agricultural tools and appropriate access to water. Minimum improvements in farming techniques and food storage systems provide extra help.
7. Many experts in this field are convinced that the best way to alleviate world hunger and education. Educated people are more able to escape from the cycle of poverty that causes hunger.
Sources (divided into paragraphs):
1) The Project Against World Hunger, United Nations;
2) CARE;
3) Institute for the Promotion development and nutrition;
4) World Food Programme (UN WFP);
5) Organization of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO);
6) Oxfam;
7) Fund for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
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