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Europe has the most children who are suffering from malnutrition. Malnutrition is when you lack a certain amount of nutrients. This is due to the lack of food that families are able to get. The cost of food is hard for many to afford, that is why many go hungry and lack nutrients. In fact, there are over 15 million people in Europe suffering from the lack of food and nutrients as of right now. The European Federation of Food Banks does its best to try to help with this situation. They try to lower prices to make food more affordable for others.

Links and Sources...
http://www.actionagainsthunger.org/taxonomy/countries/europe

http://www.news.va/en/news/europe-fifteen-million-poor-people-in-europe-at-ri

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233 million people in sub-Saharan Africa were hungry/undernourished in 2014-2016. This is the 2nd largest number of people during that time. This is because the average pay for people in this area is $1.90 per week. Because of the small amount of money that the people receive the poverty and violence in Africa has increased. Countries who have more violence are more prone to hunger. In the article it says that poverty is 20% higher in countries that are affected by violence. Also people who live in areas of violence are 50% more likely to suffer hunger or to be undernourished The violence, poverty and hunger all happen because of each other.

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Goal two of the Sustainable Development Goals, developed in 2016, strives for "Zero Hunger" by 2030. Unfortunately, hunger and malnutrition remain a large barrier of development in many regions, including Africa.

There are large differences among continents in the prevalence of severe food insecurity. Approximately 27.4% of the population in Africa was classified as severely food insecure in 2016, which is almost four times as high as any other region. Alarmingly, food insecurity is on the rise, specifically in sub-Saharan Africa. From 2014 to 2016, food insecurity increased by about 3% (FAO, 2017).
Table 1. Percentage and number of people affected by severe food insecurity in 2016
Source: FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP, and WHO. 2017. The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2017. Building resilience for peace and food security. Rome, FAO.

Global estimates of undernourishment rose from 777 million in 2015 to 821 million in 2017. Africa has the highest prevalence of undernourishment, estimated in 2016 to be 20% of the population. This is especially alarming in Eastern Africa, where it is suspected that one-third of the population is undernourished. Due primarily to its larger population size, Asia has the highest total number of undernourished individuals-520 million, versus Africa's 243 million (FAO, 2017).

Source: FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO. 2017.The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2017. Building resilience for peace and food security. Rome, FAO.

Chronic undernutrition contributes to stunting in children under five years of age. This means that the child is too short for his or her age, which can have long-term negative impacts on health and development. The prevalence of stunting is highest in the eastern, middle, and western sub-regions of Africa, as well as Southern Asia and Oceania according to estimates in 2016. Prevalence of stunting has decreased in most regions, with reductions in the sub-regions of Africa being the slowest to decrease (FAO, 2017).

Acute undernutrition contributes to wasting in children under five years of age. This means that the child is too thin for his or her height. Childhood wasting is attributed to higher risk of disease and death. The prevalence of wasting in Africa was estimated to be 7.4% in 2016 (FAO, 2017).

What are the causes of hunger?

Food insecurity and hunger are caused by many factors, often being intertwined with one another. In general, the principal causes of hunger include poverty, conflict, climate and weather, lack of investment in agriculture, and unstable markets. (World Food Programme, 2018). Note: This is not an exhaustive list; See factsheet on hunger and nutrition.
Poverty
Poverty is a principal cause of hunger in Africa and elsewhere. Individuals living in poverty often cannot afford food of sufficient quality or quantity to live a healthy life. According to the World Bank, in 2013, 42.3% of the population of sub-Saharan Africa lived on $1.90 or less per day, a principal factor of widespread hunger. Poverty is often a cycle. Children exposed to long-term undernutrition are often stunted, leading to long- term consequences including decreased labor productivity and income-earning potential (FAO, 2017).
Conflict
Conflict and violence can have direct and indirect impacts on all levels of the food system, leading to food insecurity and hunger. Conflict often puts constraints on employment and income opportunities, which affects an individual's ability to acquire food. Conflict can also affect exports and imports, which can lead to limited food availability and affordability. Availability of food can also be affected if resources (land, equipment, etc.) used to produce food are destroyed during times of conflict (FAO, 2017).

In 2017, conflict was the major cause of food insecurity and hunger in 18 countries, affecting about 74 million individuals. Eleven of these countries were in Africa, which totaled about 37 million people. Northern Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, and South Sudan account for the majority of these individuals (Food Security Information Network, 2018). Since 2013, South Sudan has experienced ongoing conflict, which has caused an increase in food insecurity. In 2017, parts of South Sudan declared famine (see image below), and more than 42% of the population faced severe food insecurity (FAO, 2017).

Source: FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO. 2017. The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2017. Building resilience for peace and food security. Rome, FAO.
Environment
Environmental challenges-including erosion, desertification, deforestation, and drought and water shortages-can have detrimental impacts on food security. In 2017, 23 countries experienced food crises due to climate and weather conditions. Two-thirds of these countries were in Africa, affecting approximately 32 million people.

As stated above, the causes of hunger are often intertwined. For example, in 2017, Uganda faced food insecurity due to a drought that occurred in 2016. During this period, Uganda was already experiencing food insecurity due to an influx of refugees (Food Security Information Network, 2018). The environmental challenges from drought increased poverty and hunger by reducing agricultural production and people's incomes.

Many of these challenges are man-made. Deforestation, for example, is caused by humans seeking new places to live, farm, or obtain firewood. Drought, water shortage and desertification in Africa all reduce agricultural productivity and thus food availability.

Some Other Factors
Governance
As mentioned above, there is a clear connection between conflict and hunger, but poor governance and policies also lead to hunger due to insufficient access to food.

Many countries have seen progress in reducing hunger among their citizens after implementing policies that increase food security. For example, in the early 2000s, Ethiopia invested in agricultural research and extension, leading to increases in food availability. This increased investment in infrastructure helped move crops to markets, increasing food access (IFPRI, 2017).

Consuming poor-quality food can lead to malnutrition. Policies such as food fortification programs can increase the availability of nutritious foods. The implementation of iodine fortification programs in countries such as Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe have been successful (Mijumbi, 2011).
Population growth
Africa's population has increased rapidly, from 221 million in 1950 to 1.2 billion in 2018. Africa has the highest population growth rate among world regions; between 2010 and 2015, it grew at a rate of 2.55% per year. It is estimated that more than half of the global population growth between now and 2050 will occur in Africa (United Nations, 2018). Rapid population growth can limit increases in per capita income, causing poverty and hunger.
(Updated August 2018 with the assistance of Chelsea Kennard, Cornell University, BSc. 2018)
References

Dorosh, P. (2017, 3 July). Ending famines and chronic hunger requires good governance. International Food Policy Research Institute. Retrieved from http://www.ifpri.org/blog/ending-famines-and-chronic-hunger-requires-good-governance. Accessed September 5, 2018

FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO. 2018. The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2018: Building climate resilience for food security and nutrition. Rome, FAO. Retrieved from http://www.fao.org/state-of-food-security-nutrition/. Accessed September 15, 2018

FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO. 2017. The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2017. Building resilience for peace and food security. Rome, FAO. Retrieved from http://www.fao.org/3/a-I7695e.pdf. Accessed September 5, 2018

Food Security Information Network. (2018). Global Report on Food Crises, 2018. Retrieved from https://docs.wfp.org/api/documents/WFP-0000069227/download/?_ga=2.230444252.1302894801.1532977017-1312940804.1532720756. Accessed September 5, 2018

Mijumbi, Rhona. (2011, March). Is Mandatory Food Fortification an Efficient Strategy for the Alleviation of Micronutrient Deficiency? A SURE Rapid Response.

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Africa Hunger Facts, Africa Poverty Facts - World Hunger News

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Goal two of the Sustainable Development Goals, developed in 2016, strives for "Zero Hunger" by 2030. Unfortunately, hunger and malnutrition remain a large barrier of development in many regions, including Africa. There are large differences among continents in the prevalence of severe food insecurity.

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Many families in America such as the turner's and the Maxwell's are struggling to find food for their families. They talked about skipping meals and being worried their kids we not have enough to eat. This problem was not only with these families but for forty nine million more people around America. We as the people in America need to stand up and help the people who are starving and going through the problem of Hunger.

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Tianna Gaines Turner can't remember the last time she went to bed without worrying about how she was going to feed her three children.

She can't remember the last time she woke up and wasn't worried about how she and her husband would make enough in their part-time jobs to buy groceries and pay utilities on their apartment in a working-class section of Philadelphia.

And she can't remember the last time she felt confident she and her husband wouldn't have to skip meals so their children could eat.

Twenty-eight hundred miles away in a middle-class section of Van Nuys, Calif., similar worries press on Nikki Maxwell and her husband. The two lost their jobs during the recession and now work part time making half their former income.

They face a daily struggle to feed their three children, Maxwell says. She remembers the first time she had to turn to a food pantry for help because she had no other options.

Nikki Maxwell prepares a dinner of vegetable soup and rice with her children: Morgan, 12, left, and Erin, 14, in their Chatsworth home. (Photo: Robert Hanashiro, USA TODAY)

"I remember feeling really hopeless," Maxwell says. "I was depressed. I didn't know what to do. I was drowning under the weight of it."

The recession is officially over, but not for millions of working poor, such as Gaines Turner and Maxwell, who do not always have enough money to buy food for the family, according to a new report by Feeding America, a hunger-relief charity.

The report, based on 2012 federal survey data on 44,000 households, says 49 million Americans are "food insecure" - people who sometimes eat less, go hungry or eat less nutritious meals because they can't afford to eat better. Almost a third of them are children.

The report, called "Map the Meal Gap," found:

* In 324 counties, mostly in the South, one in five residents are food insecure. Nationally, the figure is one in seven people. Those rates haven't changed since Feeding America began issuing the annual report in 2011, when 318 counties had high food insecurity rates.

* Families say they needed on average an additional $15.82 per person per week in 2012 to buy enough groceries, up from $14.35 in 2011.

* More counties with a high number of people who are food insecure are seeing food costs go up. The report says 23 counties with high rates of people at risk of hunger also had high food costs. In those counties, the average meal costs $3 or more, higher than the national average of $2.74. In 2011, just eight counties had high food insecurity rates and high meal costs.
REPORT: Feeding America's Map the Meal Gap 2014
"Despite the end of the Great Recession, food insecurity rates are high," says Craig Gundersen, an economist and executive director of the National Soybean Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois, who studies hunger and compiled the research in the Feeding America report.

Poverty, which contributes to hunger, has remained stubbornly high, he says. The poverty rate - defined by the federal government as annual income of $23,550 for a family of four - is 15%.

"This shows tens of millions of Americans are still struggling," he says.

Nikki and Bill Maxwell with their children: Logan, 8, left, Morgan, 12, center, and Erin, 14 outside their Chatsworth, Calif., home. (Photo: Robert Hanashiro, USA TODAY)

Those most at risk of empty refrigerators and growling tummies are the 10 million people who make up the working poor, says Mariana Chilton, a public health professor at Drexel University School of Public Health and the director of the school's Center for Hunger-Free Communities.

She says reductions in government programs such as food stamps coupled with rising costs of food, housing and utilities force poor families to choose between buying food and paying bills.

"This is a massive public health crisis, and it is a silent crisis," she says.

In November, Congress reduced food stamp benefits to 47 million people. On average, a family of four receiving $668 a month saw that allotment drop by $36.

Preliminary data show that the cuts are affecting families, Chilton says. Children's HealthWatch, a network of doctors and public health researchers who collect data on children up to 4 years old, says 29% of the households they track were at risk of hunger last year, compared with 25% the year before.

The number of families receiving food stamps dropped from almost 48 million people in January of last year to 46.5 million in January this year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees the program.

That's a sign that the economy is recovering, says Robert Doar, a poverty studies fellow with the American Enterprise Institute, a free-market research group. He was commissioner of New York City's Human Resources Administration under Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

However, he says, the recovery is still weak and leaving many families behind.

He cautions that food insecurity is not a measure of hunger; it is a measure of a person's financial circumstances and their perception of how much food they can afford to buy.

"It makes it more likely that (the term) can be used to make the problem appear worse," he says, but as a financial measure it shows "the extent to which the recovery is painfully slow."

Gaines Turner and her family live in Philadelphia, one of the counties with high rates of food insecurity at 22%. She says she can't buy enough healthful food on her family's income and food stamps. Her kids are among the almost 21 million children in families who get food stamps.

She makes $10.88 an hour as a seasonal administrator at a Philadelphia recreation center. She was unemployed during the winter. Her husband, Marcus, works at a supermarket deli part time, making $8.50 an hour. They qualify for federal housing assistance that drops their rent to $30 a month. In the past two years, their food stamp allotment has gone up and down from a high of almost $800 to a low of $163, depending on their income.

"You rob PECO to go to Pathmark," she says, referring to the power company and supermarket. "We're working low-wage jobs, so you are living paycheck to paycheck and you don't know where the money is going to come from."

She says they struggle to pay utility costs that top $400 a month. They've bounced from cheap motels to apartments as they struggle to find safe, affordable places to live that are not crime-ridden or so rodent- or mold-infested that they worsen her children's asthma.

Her children, a 9-year-old boy and 6-year-old twins, a boy and a girl, have epilepsy and are on daily medication. She has epilepsy, asthma and high blood pressure, which means they are all on a costly gluten-free diet. On their income, she says, buying fresh fruits, vegetables, milk and meat is difficult.

Almost every day, she gets on a bus and treks to buy whatever is on sale. She says she'll go to five markets to get what the average person buys in one.

By the end of the month, things get scarce, she says.

She calls friends for help, visits her local food pantry and, when all else fails, she and her husband don't eat so they can leave the food they have for their children.

"The saddest thing is when my oldest son would say, 'Mommy, you can eat my food,' " she says. "I don't want my kids hurt by this."

Gaines Turner, 35, has chronicled her family's odyssey, which includes two periods of homelessness, in more than 2,000 photographs for an advocacy and research project run by Drexel University called Witnesses to Hunger.

Maxwell, 44, her husband and three children have had a similar experience. They weren't always poor. Maxwell's family was solidly middle-class. She and her husband graduated from college and had good jobs. She wrote grant applications for non-profit organizations and he wrote text for video games. But they lost their jobs and then their home in the recession. They were homeless for six months in 2012, bouncing around from relative to friend.

The worst thing, she says, was not knowing when they would have the money to feed their children. They ran through their savings and 401(k)s. Her husband skipped meals.

Nikki and Bill Maxwell with their children: Logan, 8, Erin, 14, center, and Morgan, 12, eat dinner. (Photo: Robert Hanashiro, USA TODAY)

More than a year ago, they found part-time jobs with a social service agency that helps Native Americans, but they make less than they used to and too much to qualify for food stamps or other government benefits. So they still struggle to feed their children, who are 8, 12 and 14.

Monthly visits to the food pantry help supplement their meals with noodles, peanut butter, beans, fruits and vegetables. Maxwell says she doesn't know what she'd do without the food bank's help.
For more on hunger in America, go to hunger.usatoday.com
"Recovery is a slow process," Maxwell says. "There are a lot of people in crisis. When you face food insecurity, it's hard to feel secure again."

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Tianna Gaines Turner can't remember the last time she went to bed without worrying about how she was going to feed her three children. She can't remember the last time she woke up and wasn't worried about how she and her husband would make enough in their part-time jobs to buy groceries and pay utilities on their apartment in a working-class section of Philadelphia.

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Hunger in India is a complex issue. When India achieved independence the people of the country were greatly affected by hunger because of the poverty levels. They still are. Although their population is greatly made up of starving people, they are still considered the greatest success story of tackling the food problem in the country. Although the hunger levels are high, they have drastically decreased.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/india-hunger-levels-ranked-as-serious-in-2016-global-hunger-index/story-TGSaInBeNJL2cXWO7m4HXI.html

http://pratichi.org/sites/default/files/HungerIndia.pdf

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The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

This quote is showing that food is harder to get than love and trust. This is directed to those who suffer from hunger. Knowing that love is hard to maintain, food is harder to get than love for most people.
-Mother Teresa

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If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.
- Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa tells everyone that you can't help everyone at once, but every person that you help makes a difference. The more people that you help the more lives you save and even if it feels like you aren't doing anything your contribution means a lot to the families it helps. This quote is directed towards people who have enough money so that they can donate to people less fortunate.

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This video shows you how to make a difference. All you have to do is donate two dollars to save a life. If everyone pitches in a little, then it can make a big difference in the lives of people who suffer from hunger.

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The World Hunger Problem Child Hunger "The things you can do with $2"

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This video shows you how children like us are dying every second from hunger, and every meal they have is a struggle to get. They suffer constantly, and this video is a great wake up call on how all of us should help, and spend our time to find a solution to hunger.

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If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.
- Buzz Aldrin

This quote inspires people and tells them that even though it is a very big challenge to overcome, there it hope and hunger can be fixed. This quote is directed at the people who are more fortunate than the ones who suffer hunger. Those people could donate money and help the people in need.

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Many situations result in starvation because the families are too poor to support their education so they can't get jobs which results in poverty so they can't afford food.

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Many of the children and families who suffer from hunger live in poor third world countries where the families can not afford the food to provide for the needs of their families

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Not only do adults suffer from lack of food, but people of all ages including children.

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The children and adults of our world today are suffering from the common problem of hunger. This occurs when families can't afford food or a natural disaster takes place.