Living in poverty causes World hunger.
The poor are hungry, and the hungry are usually poor. In First World countries, people talk about the quality of life or the standard of living. But in Third World countries, all they can focus on is the sustaining of life.
A major problem in Third World countries is capital investment. There is not enough money to be spent on agricultural development or even basics like seeds and farm tools which means that the third world countries can’t invest into projects to improve the wealth of their country.
Another main reason for hunger is population. Nearly every country experiences a growth in population, but the third world countries experience is completely different. It puts an enormous strain on the country’s ability to provide resources and services as they gain more people but no more crops, food, water or health care for look after all the people. Resources are then shortened for everyone else and the whole country struggles to cope.
This Earth did not reach a population of 1 billion until about the turn of the 1900’s. It took the world thousands of years to reach a population level of 1 billion. But, by 1950, the world's population grew to 2 billion, meaning the population doubled in just 50 years. By 1975, we had 4 billion people, doubling in just 25 years. Experts say that we will have 6 to 8 billion people by the end of this century, and you can imagine how poverty is just going to get worse unless we do something about it now.