Poverty is a huge contributor to world hunger. When people can’t afford to pay for food, they can’t have dinner that night. Without money, there is no food. There are so many reasons how poverty is associated with hunger. Some include, land rights and ownership, diversion of land use to non-productive use, increasing emphasis on export-oriented agriculture, inefficient agricultural practices, war, famine, drought, over-fishing, poor crop yield, lack of democracy and rights, and more.4 Studies show that people are not hungry because lack of food, but because they can’t afford food. Ross Copeland believes that “[A]ccess to food and other resources is not a matter of availability, but rather of ability to pay. Put bluntly, those with the most money command the most resources, whilst those with little or no money go hungry.”5
4 http://www.globalissues.org/article/7/causes-of-hunger-are-related-to-poverty
5 http://www.globalissues.org/article/8/solving-world-hunger-means-solving-world-poverty
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