·         Hunger and poverty is responsible for the deaths of approximently 25,000 people per day

·         There are currently 852 million people in the world suffering from hunger.

·         Hunger and malnutrition kill more people per year than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis together.

·         Poor families spend more than 70% of their budget on food. The spend of the average middle-class american family is approximently 10%.

Source: United Nations – World Food Programme

What do you know about hunger in Brazil?

·         Research by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) shows that 13.9 million people went hungry in Brazil in 2004.

·         Of the 52 million private households estimated by Pnad (2004), 6.5% of these were suffering from severe food insecurity.

·         The age-group with the highest proportion of people suffering from severe food insecurity were children and young people up to 17 years, where 10.3% of the population were suffering.

·         Most food insecurity in Brazil remains in the countryside rather than the city (11.1% food insecurity in rural areas versus 6.9% in urban areas).

·         However, the cities of the Southeast, South and the Midwest have higher rates of food insecurity that their countrysides.

(Pnad 2004 – Research about food and nutrition security).