One difference between today and 1943 (the Great Bengal famine) or 1973 (the Ethiopian famine) is the availability of real-time information about conditions in famine areas. Citizens throughout the world have an unprecedented ability to be informed about the depth of crisis and human suffering that are associated with hunger.
Here are a few data sources that provide fairly detailed current information about malnutrition and starvation in the world.
ReliefWeb (maintained by United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs)
UNEP GRIDA (maintained by the United Nations Environment Programme)
Food Security Cambodia (Cambodia Food Security and Nutrition website)
(Famine in Niger)
Surely, of all the problems the world faces, widespread hunger and famine are among the worst. We need to put an end to hunger.
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