Students examine the issue of hunger and find out how it feels to be malnourished and the effects hunger has on people?s lives. Why famines happen and where they are most likely to strike and wasting and sharing resources are also explored. Using the actual words of people with direct experience, expert views and statistics, useful graphs and eye-catching photographs, this volume brings this much-debated issue into a clearer perspective. Includes full-color photographs, time line, glossary, resources, and index. 46 pages.