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To be healthy and active, we must have food in adequate quantity, quality and variety to meet our energy and nutrient requirements.Without adequate nutrition,children cannot develop their potential to the fullest, and adults will experience difficulty in maintaining or expanding theirs.

Not everyone has adequate access to the food they need, and this has led to large-scale hunger and malnutrition in the world. More than 840 million people today are chronically undernourished and unable to obtain sufficient food to meet even minimum energy needs.

Approximately 200 million children under five years of age suffer from acute or chronic symptoms of malnutrition; during seasonal foodshortages, and in times of famine and social unrest, this number increases. According to some estimates, malnutrition is an important factor among the nearly 13 million children under five who die every year from preventable diseases and infections, such as measles, diarrhoea, malaria and pneumonia, or from some
combination of these.The overwhelming majority of the undernourished are in developing countries, which account for 95% (798 million) of the undernorished; 34 million people in countries in transition and 10 million in industrialized countries are estimated to be undernourished. At the regional level, Asia and the Pacific account for three-fifths (505 million) of the worlds undernourished; India alone has 214 million undernourished people. Almost onequarter (198 million) of the undernourished are in Sub-Saharan Africa, which is also the region with the highest proportion of its population undernourished.

What are the main causes of hunger?
Hunger and malnutrition are caused by many factors, but the primary cause of hunger is poverty. Education, food production and availability, access to food, natural disasters, war, are also major influencing factors.

Is it possible to have a world free from hunger?
It is not because of a lack of food globally that there is hunger in world, but because of a lack of effective and timely action to ensure everyone's right to adequate food. With sufficient political will and adequate resources, and the active involvement of all members of society, we can make
significant steps forward to achieving a world free from hunger and malnutrition.

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Contents by Feeding minds, fighting hunger (a world free from hunger)

Home garden pictures by Sarun Hey, a student major in organic farming