By comparison, in the United States one child in 165 will die before turning 5 years old. In the last 50 years, almost 400 million people worldwide have died from hunger and poor sanitation, according to the report. That s three times the number of people killed in all wars fought in the entire 20th century. The Indian subcontinent has nearly half the world s hungry people. Africa and the rest of Asia together have approximately 40 percent, and the remaining hungry people are found in Latin America and other parts of the world.
Poverty is the main cause of hunger.
Poor people often lack access to land to grow food or inadequate income to buy food. Seventy percent of the world's poor are female. 2.6 billion people lack access to proper sanitation. Often it takes just a few simple resources for impoverished people to be able to become self-sufficient. These resources include quality seeds, appropriate tools, and access to water.