Children who cannot break out of this cycle eventually die. With all the hunger in the world, it's often thought that we must be running out of food to feed our growing population. Each day nearly 1 billion people in the world lack enough calories to sustain good health. And each day nearly 35,000 children under the age of five die of starvation or preventable infectious diseases. The ongoing lack of sufficient day to day food is rooted in basic economic problems.
People are hungry because they have lost their means to acquire food.
They lack either the land to grow food, the money to buy it, or access to state programs of food or wage distribution. Many times, it is a corrupt government that limits people's ability to make significant economic improvements. Among the most important features necessary to prevent hunger is a democratic government and a free press that publicizes the threat of hunger. We've all heard it said that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. As the world grows into an international global economy this will become more and more a reality.