We often hear about people’s desire to solve world hunger, or to be able to feed the world and help alleviate the suffering associated with it.

However, meaningful long-term alleviation to hunger is rooted in the alleviation of poverty, as poverty leads to hunger. World hunger is a terrible symptom of world poverty. If efforts are only directed at providing food, or improving food production or distribution, then the structural root causes that create hunger, poverty and dependency would still remain. And so while continuous effort, resources and energies are deployed to relieve hunger through these technical measures, the political causes require political solutions as well.

Notes and statistics

963 million people across the world are hungry

Every day almost 16,ooo children die from hunger related causes.  That's roughly one child every five seconds. 
 
about 26,000 people died of hunger today.

Americans wasted about 200,000 pounds of food today.

More than 153 million of the world's malnourished people are children under the age of 5

Six million children under the age of five die every year as a result of hunger.

These are just a few of the staggering statistics that are conveniently kept out of the news and the papers.  These people need some sort of assistance, we can't keep ignoring and justifying the deaths of millions, there is something that everyone can do, they just need to get involved.