World Hunger

 

Most of the world’s hungry live in developing countries. According to the latest Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) statistics from 2013, there are 842 million hungry people in the world and 98 percent of them are in developing countries.  They are distributed like this:

 

Hunger is actually the worst weapon of mass destruction. It claims millions of victims each year.  - Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil, 2003-2011

Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food. - Mario Batali

If you want to eliminate hunger, everybody has to be involved. - Bono



 

Most of the information on this page is from World Food Programs.