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Very few people starve today. In many third-world countries obesity is a larger health problem than starvation. It may change if global warming gets worse and destroys farmland. But right now, world hunger is decreasing rapidly.


There are still around a billion people who don’t have enough to eat and many more who are only a poor harvest away from starving.


But we talked about starvation, not malnutrition.


> Poor nutrition causes nearly half (45%) of deaths in children under five - 3.1 million children each year

https://www.wfp.org/hunger/faqs

Plenty of people starve to death. Plenty of people are still hungry. Hunger is increasing.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/16/world-hunger-decrea... http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/288229/icode/ http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/10/global-hun...




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