Date:02/07/2009 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/seta/2009/07/02/stories/2009070250091200.htm

SNAPSHOTS

The real, unrecognised causes of global hunger

Photo: S. Ramesh

Most of the world’s acute hunger occurs not in conflicts and natural disasters but in the annual ‘hunger season.’ It is when the previous year’s harvest stocks have dwindled, food prices are high and jobs, scarce.