The majority of starving people live in developing countries, located mainly in Asia, the Pacific and sub-Saharan Africa. Hunger is mostly found in low-income rural areas. However, hunger is also increasing in urban areas (“Frequently” 2). One of the main causes of world hunger is the significant lack of food security, or the ability of people to have access to healthy, nutritious food at all times, in many areas of the world (Marsh, Alagona 254). Due to this serious lack of food security, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimated that “25,000 people die every day from hunger [, and]… between 1998 and 2000, there were 840 million undernourished people in the world – almost one sixth of the world's population” (“Hunger” 2). Today, hunger constitutes a more serious health risk than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined, and has become a serious problem ("Frequently”