What Is Food Insecurity—and Why Is the World Still Hungry?

Jabeen

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Understanding the invisible crisis behind global hunger and poverty.

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A planet that can send robots to Mars
can’t figure out how to feed a hungry child.

Supermarkets throw away mountains of food
while millions fall asleep listening to their stomachs argue with hope.

Your phone updates faster than relief aid.
And somehow, this has become normal.

Sit with that for a second.

Because food insecurity isn’t about empty plates.
It’s about a broken world pretending everything is fine.

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So… What Is Food Insecurity, Really?

Food insecurity isn’t just starvation.
It’s not always bones and flies and black-and-white charity ads.

It’s uncertainty.

It’s parents skipping meals so kids can eat.
It’s choosing between rent and groceries.
It’s knowing hunger might knock tomorrow—again.

According to global reports, over 700 million people worldwide face food…