Lack of food is not the problem. Enough food is produced in the world today for everyone to be properly nourished and lead a healthy and productive life. Hunger exists because of poverty. It exists because natural disasters, like earthquakes, floods and droughts, sometimes occur in places where poor people have little or no means to rebuild once the damage is done. It exists because in many countries women, although they do much of the farming, do not have as much access as men to training, credit or land. Hunger exists because of conflict, which takes away any chance people have to earn a decent living and feed their families. It exists because poor people don’t have access to land or solid agricultural infrastructure to produce viable crops or keep livestock, or to steady work that would otherwise allow them access to food. It exists because people sometimes use natural resources in ways that are not sustainable. It exists because there is not enough investment in the rural sector in many countries to support agricultural development. Hunger exists because financial and economic crises affect the poor most of all by reducing or eliminating the sources of income they depend on to survive.

http://www.1billionhungry.org/hunger/why-is-there-hunger/

                                                   为什么会有饥饿？  

    饥饿产生的原因并不是因为没有足够的食物。当今世界所生产的食物足以让全球每一个人都能得到足够的营养，让每个人健康地并且有作为地生活。存在饥饿是因为贫穷，是因为地震、洪涝、干旱等自然灾害有时发生在穷人没有能力重建的地方，是因为很多国家的妇女虽然从事了大部分耕种事务却不能像男人一样享有同样的培训、信贷的机会和享有同样的土地的权利，是因为各种冲突剥夺了人们通过劳动过体面的生活和养活他们的家庭的机会，是因为穷人没有土地和农业基础设施进行作物生产和畜禽养殖或者没有稳定的工作使他们能够通过劳动获取食物，是因为人们有时采用的是不可持续的自然资源利用方式，是因为很多国家对农业行业的投资不足以支撑农业的发展，饥饿的存在还因为财政和经济危机削减了穷人赖以生存的收入来源，从而对穷人造成的影响最大。