By the year 2008, the balance of the world's population will be living in cities.

Poverty maps are visual tools that show “linkages between poverty and food insecurity, the environment and development” and are therefore of great use.

Overcrowding, inadequate housing and poor waste-disposal systems led to disease outbreaks during the 19th century. Sadly, in developing countries, the situation is similar today.

No access to arable land and unemployment levels hovering around 70% explain how many South Africans battle with hunger and poverty every day.

Hunger and malnutrition are taking the lives of the world's must vulnerable citizens.

Not having enough to eat can impair reading and math development in children, a Cornell study confirms.

The unequal distribution of wealth remains the underlying cause of poverty throughout Latin America, although the region's countries have made widely varying degrees of progress towards meeting

Falling grain stocks and rising grain prices may signal a new era in the world food economy, one dominated not by surpluses but by scarcity.

Food relief responses may provide relief in the moment but fail without sustainability.