The majority of hungry people live in developing countries, mainly located in Asia, the Pacific and sub-Saharan Africa. Famine also mainly affects low-income rural areas. However, hunger has also increased in urban areas (“Frequently” 2). One of the leading causes of world hunger is the significant lack of food security, or the ability of populations to have access to healthy and nutritious food at all times, in many parts of the world (Marsh, Alagona 254 ). As a result of this major lack of food security, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that "25,000 people die every day from hunger [and]... between 1998 and 2000, there were 840 million undernourished people in the world, almost a million people. sixth of the world’s population” (“Hunger” 2). Hunger now represents a greater health risk than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined, and has become a serious problem (“Frequently”