The scope of world hunger

Jul 31st, 2011 9:00 AM UTC
By Marissa Glauberman

As we learn more about the Horn of Africa crisis, it’s clear that world hunger is a much larger issue than most people realize. To help illustrate this notion, Benjamin D. Henning, a researcher at the University of Sheffield, used data from the Poverty Mapping Project at Columbia University to create this unsettling map of hungry children across the globe. Take a look:

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The map illustrates the estimated total number of underweight children under the age of five living in that area. As you can see, the problem of undernourished children is just as pressing in South and Southeast Asia. Take a look at some of Benjamin’s other maps on his blog, Views of the World.

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