Hunger

Hunger, chronic undernourishment or outright starvation. Hunger affects hundreds of millions of people. The world produces enough food to feed all its people, but that food is not distributed equally among the rich and poor or across national boundaries. In addition, war, drought, or pestilence can produce local outbreaks of mass starvation.

For information on:

• history and effects of food shortage, see Famine; Malnutrition; Starvation
• modern instances of mass starvation, see Auschwitz; Republic of Biafra; Khmer Rouge; Somalia: Independence
• feeding the world's population, see World Food Supply; United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization; Agriculture: World Agriculture; Agriculture: Scientific Agriculture; Fish: Fish and Humans; United States (Culture): Food and Cuisine
• antihunger programs in the United States, see Poverty: U.S. Poverty Programs; United States (Economy): Government and the Economy
• poverty and hunger, see Poverty: Effects Of Poverty
• voluntary hunger, see Fasting
• mythical figure tortured with hunger, see Tantalus
• appetite regulation, see Hypothalamus: Hypothalamus Disorders
• diseases and disorders associated with hunger, see Malnutrition; Human Nutrition: Too Little and Too Much Food; Diabetes Mellitus; Anorexia Nervosa; Bulimia; Jet Lag: Symptoms
• feeling of hunger, see Stomach: Hunger; Thirst; Brain; Sense Organs