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“In this world of plenty every human being has a right to food, clothes, decent shelter, and the rudiments of education.” - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

With an estimated 850 million hungry people in the world, a number larger than the total combined populations of the United States, Europe, Japan and Canada, it should be of no surprise that the issue of world hunger remains as a central topic in world affairs. (There are an additional 1.2 billion people that cannot obtain the variety and quantity of food to meet their basic nutritional needs.) World hunger has no singular cause, but rather is inextricably linked to: health, agriculture, education, foreign aid, traditional roles of women, and the environment to name but a few. The world currently produces more than enough food to sustain the current population. In fact, there is enough food to provide 4.3 pounds of food, per person, per day. Widely varying access to food is what prevents this from actually being a reality. Additionally, families either don't have the land and/or physical supplies to grow enough food or the income to purchase it. This traps them in a cycle of poverty.

As developing countries continue to experience these unyielding disparities, more and more non-governmental organizations are intervening to alleviate some of the hunger issues. While Conscious Alliance is unable to currently give much attention to the redistribution of food at the international level, we hope to one day shift our focus beyond just the contiguous United States.

According to the WHO, nearly one in three people to die prematurely or are disabled as a result of nutritional deficiencies (Bread for the World, 2004)

1.2 billion people live below the international poverty line of $1 per day (World Bank, 2006)

Over 10 million children died last year as a result of hunger-related conditions (UNICEF, 2006)

In the 1990s, global poverty dropped by 20 percent, while the number of hungry people increased by 18 million (World Food Program, 2003)

More people died last year from hunger and malnutrition, than AIDS, malaria & TB combined (World Health Organization, 2003)

While every country in the world has the potential of growing enough food to feed itself, 54 nations currently do not produce enough food to feed their populations, nor can they afford to import the necessary commodities to make up the gap (CARE)