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Who Experiences Hunger

Anybody can experience hunger at any time. But certain groups and people living under certain conditions are more at risk of hunger. Bread is concerned about hunger throughout the entire U.S. and world, and so we speak in broad, general terms in the descriptions below. However, we understand that there are exceptions to the rule and that not every person in these groups experiences hunger.

People in poverty

Poverty is the major cause of hunger. Bread often speaks about hunger with poverty as issues that need to be addressed together.

In the U.S., hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food, but rather the continued prevalence of poverty. To the surprise of many, most Americans (51.4 percent) will live in poverty at some point before age 65. That means any one of us - or our friends or family members - may be affected.

Although we live in the world's wealthiest nation, a reported 14.5 percent of U.S. households - nearly 49 million Americans - struggle to put food on the table. Further, more than one in seven people in the U.S. lives below the poverty line, an income of $22,113 for a family of four in 2010.

Outside the U.S., many people suffer from hunger and poverty. Nearly 1.2 billion people in developing countries live in extreme poverty, living on less than $1.25 a day. The vast majority of the world's hungry people live in developing countries, where 13.5 percent of the population is undernourished.

Millions of people in developing countries produce their own food as smallholder farmers. This is a precarious existence. The challenges they face include growing enough food to feed their families, depending on the weather for a sufficient crop each year, or getting sufficient nutrition to maintain their health. These living conditions and other challenges that can come and go put many people at risk of hunger.

Children

Children are at high risk of hunger because they are dependent on adults for their care. And their younger and growing bodies are more vulnerable to the other problems hunger causes.

Every year, 2.6 million children die as a result of hunger-related causes. In the U.S., nearly 16 million children - one in five - live in households that struggle to put food on the table. Even short-term episodes of hunger can cause lasting damage to a child's development. Hunger puts children at risk of a range of cognitive, behavioral, emotional, and physical problems.

It is vitally important that children get a good start in life from a nutrition point of view. Bread has focused many of its efforts on the movement to provide adequate nutrition to children during the 1,000 days from a woman's pregnancy to her child's second birthday. This is a critical time of growth and development for children.

Studies show hunger among children can lead to:

aggression, tardiness, and absenteeism

health problems

a decrease in attention and lower test scores

Children who are fed and nourished adequately learn better in school. This translates into a better education. As better-educated children grow into adulthood, they are more likely to be productive and have higher-paying jobs.

Ending hunger among children has many benefits. It can break the cycle of poverty that often continues across generations.

Farmers

Three-fourths of all people living in extreme poverty live in rural areas of developing countries and work in agriculture. Some are small-scale farmers or landless laborers who work on farms that others own. Many live hand to mouth and can grow only what they need to feed their families, with perhaps a little extra to sell to meet their other needs.

Smallholder farmers are a unique group. The vast majority of Americans are far removed from the source of their food - the farms where food is grown mostly on a massive scale. Farmers in developing countries live on the land and know daily how closely dependent they are on it.

As a result, Bread sees the potential for a high payoff in providing smallholder farmers with resources and tools to improve the ways they grow food. Strengthening farmers and their role in providing food means families and communities can also grow stronger. The U.S. government has programs that are doing this.

Family farmers that are able to grow more food and more nutritious food have extra produce to sell to others. Ensuring farmers have access to markets and have a good product to sell is also important. This gives farmers more income, which they can use for other needs - better housing, medical care, and school fees.

Women

Despite milestones in human rights and women's empowerment over the last half century, women around the world struggle with food insecurity.

Bread believes that gender discrimination is a cause of persistent hunger. Bread for the World Institute's 2015 Hunger Report, When Women Flourish...We Can End Hunger, addresses this issue. The report says that empowerment of women and girls is essential in ending hunger, extreme poverty, and malnutrition around the world and in the U.S.

In many countries, women and girls are more likely to suffer from hunger and malnutrition than men and boys. Poverty and lack of education contribute to this disparity. However, giving women greater control of their income and assets would increase their bargaining power in the household and the market economy. Research has shown that this benefits their families and leads to widespread improvements in a country.

The report also shows that women's willingness to share men's breadwinning responsibilities has not been matched by men's willingness to share unpaid household work or caregiving responsibilities. Though domestic work is a public good in the same way that education, clean water, clean air, and the food supply are, it is not recognized as such. Women constitute half the global population.

A cost-effective way of combating global malnutrition is to invest in improving the lives of women farmers. Women produce well over half the global food supply. Studies show that women are more likely to spend additional income on food when their economic circumstances improve. Yet 60 percent of the world's hungry people are women and girls.

Seniors

Many Americans age 65 and over want to be enjoying their retirement. Instead, many struggle because of food insecurity.

Seniors make up 12.9 percent of the U.S. population. The number of those seniors living below the poverty line: 3.9 million. Is this how we want to treat our beloved parents, grandparents, and elders in what should be their golden years?

The number of seniors experiencing hunger increased by 88 percent between 2001 and 2011. If trends continue, seniors who are hungry will increase by 50 percent by 2025.

In 2040, there will be 79 million seniors in the United States - baby boomers who are retiring and aging. This generation has the potential for many among them to be hungry.

Rural Communities

In the United States and globally, residents of rural communities are more likely to be hungry and poor because they have less access to opportunities. Bread for the World Institute's 2005 Hunger Report, Strengthening Rural Communities, shows that the rural U.S. and rural areas around the world are hit hard by hunger and political neglect.

The report shows the isolation of our nation's rural communities:

Farm consolidation and the impact of globalization on manufacturing are creating rural enclaves of hunger and poverty.

"Food deserts" - areas without access to grocery stores or any affordable healthy food - have become an increasingly common feature of the rural landscape.

The report also examines why there are so many rural people in the developing world who are hungry and poor.

The majority of the world's hungry people live in developing countries. And in those countries, millions of people live on small farms where they grow the food to feed themselves. These farms are in rural areas. These rural areas are often isolated because of poor roads and few transportation options.

However, because most farming in developing countries happens in rural areas, that's where there is the most promise for ending hunger.

Urban communities

Many people who are at risk of hunger have jobs - even more than one - and work hard just to get by and put food on the table for their families. This group is often referred to as "the working poor." Most in this group live in cities - where most of the jobs are. And many people in this group work in low-paying, service-oriented jobs, which are prevalent in urban areas.

And even though cities can efficiently provide most of what people need, sometimes they fall short in providing access to food. Cities sometimes have the challenge of food deserts - a situation in which people have to travel great distances to buy food or to find nutritious food.

A person working full-time at the minimum wage earns about $14,500 a year. The federal government's poverty line for a family of three - one parent with two children - is $17,568. Low-income households already spend a greater share of their income on food. Food accounts for 16.4 percent of spending for households making less than $10,000 per year compared to the U.S. average of 12.7 percent.

Cities often have high costs for transportation and rent. All of these demands on a low income can squeeze low-income families and put them at risk of hunger.

"God is in the midst of the city."

Psalm 46:5

Hunger by the Numbers

Nearly 1.2 billion people in developing countries live in extreme poverty, living on less than $1.25 a day. The vast majority of the world's hungry people live in developing countries, where 13.5 percent of the population is undernourished.

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Where does hunger exist?

795 million people experience hunger every day. Hunger exists in the U.S. just as it does overseas.

In developing countries, hunger is related to poverty and to under-developed agriculture. Where there is bad health, weather changes, and natural disasters, hunger can also be found. Hunger results from war and displacement, unstable or unavailable markets, and from waste.

In the U.S., where there is poverty, hunger is often there also. Hidden hunger is a term used to describe what happens when vitamins and minerals are not part of the diet.

In the last few decades, the world as a whole, and developing countries in particular, have seen steady but slow progress against hunger. According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, the percentage of the world's population that is undernourished has decreased from 23.4 percent in 1990-92 to 13.5 percent in 2012-14. That progress, however, is uneven across regions.

U.S. and developed countries

For developed countries, hunger doesn't come from not having enough food available. There is enough food for everyone. The overwhelming cause of hunger in these countries is poverty.

Nearly 15 percent of U.S. households - approximately 49 million Americans, including 15.9 million children - struggle to put food on the table. Here the measure of hunger is "food insecurity" - an ongoing uncertainty of where the next meal will come from.

Churches and charities do a lot to address the immediate needs from hunger in direct ways. But the federal government also has many safety-net programs to address food insecurity, including SNAP (formerly known as food stamps), the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), and the National School Lunch Program. These government programs provide many times more hunger-related assistance than private charities.

Even with more than one in five U.S. children at risk of hunger (one in three among African-American and Latino children), funding for these critical anti-hunger programs is being challenged.

Asia

Asia is the most populous region in the world. In recent decades, as its economies have grown quickly, poverty has declined and food production has increased. The number of hungry people in Asia has also declined substantially, by 217 million between 1990-92 and 2012-14, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. Yet Asia still has to two-thirds of the world's hungry people.

In South Asia, there has been very slow progress against hunger. The population affected by hunger fell from 24 percent in 1990 to 16 percent in 2012-14. More than 40 percent of children in India are stunted (being too short for their age group) due to malnutrition, according to the Population Reference Bureau. The global food price and economic crises of 2007-2008 caused a spike in hunger in the region.

sub-Saharan Africa

Just over a quarter of the world's undernourished people live in the countries south of the Sahara Desert in Africa. Progress against hunger has been slow in this region. In 1990, one in three people in the region were undernourished. Today, one in four suffer from hunger, according to the Population Reference Bureau. War and chronic diseases (HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria) have slowed progress.

Most hungry and poor people in sub-Saharan Africa still live in rural areas and depend on the land for their livelihoods. Decades of underinvestment in agriculture has hampered their productivity. More frequent droughts and other weather shocks also hurt farmers' ability to produce enough food.

Many countries in this region have high economic growth rates, but they still lack strong systems, such as administrative, legal, education, and health systems. They also lack roads, electricity, and irrigation. These conditions make it more difficult for countries, communities, and individuals to withstand and recover from shocks, such as a disease outbreaks or droughts.

Latin America and the Caribbean

A devastating earthquake in 2010 affected one-third of Haiti's entire population and required large amounts of food aid and other assistance. Haiti's economy and its ability to produce food has not fully recovered. This is one example of extreme hunger due to disasters, which the region is prone to.

At the other end of the spectrum from Haiti's acute hunger that occurred as a result of a specific event is the type of hunger seen in Central America, specifically in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. Hunger in these countries has been building steadily over the past several years and is coupled with extreme poverty and violence. These problems reached a climax in the summer of 2014 when they forced tens of thousands of children to flee their countries and enter illegally into the U.S.

Another group experiencing high levels of hunger in this region is an estimated 50 million people who live across Mexico and Central America. They experience hunger up to eight times higher than the general population in the countries where they live. Stunting (when children do not grow properly) rates in these indigenous communities are among the highest in the world. This is the result of malnutrition at a very young age. Children who are stunted are less likely to do well in school. They earn less and are more likely have poor health as adults.

North Africa and the MIddle East

This region generally does not experience hunger on a large scale. However, the 2007-2008 food price crisis, political instability, and years of war have led to an increase in hunger in the region. Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq are called fragile states because long-term war and conflict have devastated systems and communities. There are millions who are experiencing hunger.

In Syria alone, civil war has destroyed nearly every farm. This has led to a total dependency on international food aid from donor countries like the U.S. Four million people there are being given food assistance each month - more than the population of Los Angeles. The world has not seen this kind of humanitarian crisis and resulting hunger since the 2009-2010 crisis in the Horn of Africa.

Did you know?

Churches and charities do a lot to address the immediate needs from hunger in direct ways. But the federal government also has many safety-net programs to address food insecurity. One in 20 bags of food assistance comes from a charitable organization. Federal nutrition programs provide the rest.

"Just as you did it to the least of these ... you did it to me."

Matthew 25:40

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What is Hunger

Everyone feels hungry on a daily basis. Most people are able to satisfy this craving and need. Even if not immediately, they can count on having a meal or snack within hours. This is not the type of hunger that Bread is concerned with.

People who suffer chronic hunger don't have the option of eating when they are hungry. They do not get enough calories, essential nutrients, or both. People who are hungry have an ongoing problem with getting food to eat. They have a primary need - how to feed themselves and their children today and tomorrow. They have little energy for anything else.

Access and availability of food

It is commonly known that the cause of hunger in the world is not a shortage of food but rather access to food.

Some people are hungry because food is in short supply in their area and for a specific reason. It may be because they can't afford to buy enough food. It may be both.

Some countries have a "hunger season" every year. It's when the previous harvest is gone and the next harvest is not yet ready. It can last as long as three or four months.

The U.S. doesn't have that kind of a hunger season, but for many families, some weeks are hungrier than others. These usually come toward the end of the month, as families run short of food before they have money to buy more. People can't simply decide to spend less on rent, but if necessary, they can spend less on food.

For many low-wage workers, retirees, people with disabilities, and their families, even careful planning cannot stretch the grocery budget throughout the month. Less expensive - and less nutritious - filler foods can keep children's stomachs from growling, but they can't provide what children need to grow and learn. Adults who are missing meals because they can't afford to buy food can't concentrate as well at work

What is food insecurity?

People in certain conditions, whether they live in the developing world or the United States, are extremely vulnerable to hunger. A month of bad weather for a farmer or an illness for a worker and a loss of income can mean less food and the prospect of hunger.

Food insecurity is the more formal term for this condition. People living with food insecurity lack a stable, reliable means of getting the meals they need.

Bread for the World works toward food security. This means an end not only to chronic hunger and malnutrition, but also to constant worry about where the next meal is coming from.

As the World Food Summit described it, food security is when "all people at all times... have access to sufficient safe and nutritious food... for an active and healthy life."

Some events, like natural disasters or conflict, are unpreventable and cause hunger. But Bread wants to help end the persistent hunger that exists outside these events.

What is malnutrition?

Addressing hunger is more than just giving people food and ensuring they have the needed calories. Quantity of food is important, but just as important is quality. When people don't have the right nutritious food, it's called malnutrition.

Malnutrition is being poorly nourished, whether undernourished or obese. It's the result of a combination of problems.

Among the most common are lack of protein and/or essential vitamins and minerals, frequent illnesses, inadequate health care, and unsafe water.

Developmental risks

By far the most dangerous time to suffer from malnutrition is early childhood. Getting insufficient nutrients during the 1,000-day period between pregnancy and age 2 causes damage among children that can last a lifetime.

A visible effect malnutrition in early childhood is stunting - a person who is much shorter than others. But the real problems for stunted children are not visible. People who didn't get enough nutrients during the 1,000-day window:

face lifelong health problems

have more difficulty learning in school

earn less over their lifetime. They are less able to support their families.

have more difficulty bearing and raising healthy children. Their children are more likely to be malnourished in early childhood. And a harmful cycle continues.

Globally, one in four children is stunted. This is a staggering loss of human potential.

High costs of hunger

The effects of hunger and food insecurity can generally be reversed in older children and adults. But too often, people continue to be food-insecure, so the effects continue as well.

Because food is one of our most basic needs as humans, it can affect nearly everything we do. If malnutrition persists, it has high costs - in individuals, families, communities, and even whole nations. And the costs can be visible and invisible.

This is as true in the U.S. as elsewhere. U.S. losses from lower productivity and higher healthcare costs have been estimated in the billions of dollars. Developing countries can lose up to 11 percent of their economic output.

'Hidden hunger'

Hunger does not have to have visible signs to exist. "Hidden hunger" is a term used to describe what happens when people don't get enough vitamins and minerals. Hidden hunger affects about 30 percent of the world's population - over 2 billion people. It may be invisible, but it can still affect a person's health and development.

"Jesus said...'you give them something to eat.'"

Matthew 14:16

Did you know?

Women are the primary agents the world relies on to end hunger. If they had the same access as men to tools, seeds, land titles, and financial services, then women could grow 30% more food.

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What Causes Hunger

Worldwide, the number of hungry people has dropped significantly over the past two decades, but 821 million people continue to struggle with hunger every day.

Many factors contribute to the state of hunger both in the United States and abroad. The reasons are complex and varied, and often interconnected.

Discrimination

Progress against hunger and poverty seldom happens without economic growth in countries, but economic growth alone does not ensure that prosperity is broadly shared. Every country, regardless of its wealth, has discrimination woven into its social fabric. Disadvantaged groups tend to be left the furthest behind. In most countries, these are racial, ethnic, or religious minorities. Among all of these groups, women and girls are more disadvantaged than their male counterparts. Discrimination is why women farmers in developing countries labor with fewer productive resources than their male counterparts, why women in all sectors of the economy earn less than men, and why girls are pulled out of school to work or to marry.

"I was hungry and you gave me food."

Matthew 25:35

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Largest Universities by Graduates

In 2015, the Rochester, NY institution with the largest number of graduating students was University of Rochester with 3,583 graduates.

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In 2016, the median property value in Rochester, NY grew to $77,800 from the previous year's value of $76,200.

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Using averages, employees in Rochester, NY have a shorter commute time (19.5 minutes) than the normal US worker (25 minutes). Additionally, 1.83% of the workforce in Rochester, NY have "super commutes" in excess of 90 minutes.

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Facts about Hunger in New York

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Though many of us may not realize the grave disparities that exist in our own communities, people struggle with hunger in every county and congressional district in the United States. They could be our neighbors, kids in our children's classes - the possibilities go on.

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U.S. Hunger Relief Organization | Feeding America

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