"A man without food for three days will quarrel, for a week will fight and for

a month or so will die"

Hunger is an uncomfortable or painful physical sensation caused by insufficient consumption of
dietary energy. It becomes chronic when the person does not consume a sufficient amount of
calories (dietary energy) on a regular basis to lead a normal, active and healthy life. For decades,
FAO has used the Prevalence of Undernourishment indicator to estimate the extent of hunger in
the world, thus “hunger” may also be referred to as undernourishment.

Hunger is caused by many events, including the poverty trap, natural disasters, war, poor
agricultural infrastructure, and over-exploitation of the environment. The poverty trap is the
cycle of poverty that can begin from a limited diet and progress to birthing a baby that is
malnourished. This causes the baby to have slower development and poor…show more
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They do this by destroying local markets and seizing or destroying crops and animals, while
contaminating wells and mining fields. This forces farmers to leave their lands and usually
begins their cycle in the poverty trap. Poor agricultural infrastructure causes hunger because the
lack of roads, warehouses, and irrigation causes higher transportation costs, a deficiency of
storage facilities, and unreliable water supplies. To improve the agricultural infrastructure,
however, it would cost a profuse amount of money, which would put the country in greater debt
and result in less funding for essential systems, such as health care, which already has too little
funding. Over-exploitation of the environment is caused by deforestation, over-cropping, poor
farming practices, and overgrazing. When over-exploitation occurs, salination, erosion, and
desertification results, causing less fertility and more hunger across the globe. Salination is
caused by erosion that strips the earth of its nutrients, leaving behind salty, unfertile land. This
causes plants to have less of a chance of growing properly, or not grow at all. When less plants
grow, less people are fed, and more go hungry.