• Over 1 billion people are hungry in the world right now.
• A further 750 million people are now at risk of falling into chronic hunger.
• This means that 1.75 billion people, or 25% of the world's population, now lack basic food security.
• One child dies of hunger related causes every five seconds.
• 70% of the hungry are female. Women in poor countries grow more than 60% of the food but own less than 1% of the land.
  
  Yet there is enough food in the world to feed everybody.

What causes Hunger?

• Hunger is not caused by nature, it’s a political choice!
• Hunger results from the unequal distribution of food, and the lack of access to and control over resources.
• Climate change is already having a devastating impact on hungry people - Floods, droughts and other consequences of global warming are destroying poor people’s lives.
• Global food prices have increased by 83 percent in the last 2 years (wheat has gone up 181 percent)
• Almost half the increase in the consumption of major fuel crops in 2007 was related to biofuels
  
  

In 2000 Governments committed to halving hunger by 2015. Almost ten years have passed.

Yet today hunger is increasing in most parts of the world. Governments can make a huge difference if they keep their promises.

What are we doing about it?

• HungerFREE is a global campaign that will force governments to deliver on the first Millenium Development Goal: to halve extreme poverty and hunger by 2015.
• The ActionAid HungerFREE campaign aims to put the issue of hunger to the top of the political agenda. The right to food has been sidelined for too long!

What are we asking for?

• Introduce and implement laws that bring an immediate end to all deaths by starvation and ensure basic social protection
• Enact and enforce laws that guarantee all women the right to own land.
• Ensure that corporations are held accountable for abuses of the rights to food, water, land and seeds
• Take Action Now