hunger

Borborygmi explained: why your stomach growls when hungry, after meals, and in quiet rooms — plus when those sounds signal a real problem.

Australia wastes 312 kg of food per person per year — the most in the world. The US wastes 80 million tonnes annually. Globally, one-third of all food produced is lost or wasted — enough to feed every hungry person on Earth twice over. Here's the full picture of global food waste and what the most effective interventions are.

673 million people were undernourished in 2024 — 8.2% of the global population — according to the FAO's State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2025 report. Sudan's civil war created a declared famine in 2024, the first anywhere in the world since Ethiopia in 2011. The world produces 1.5 times the calories needed to feed everyone. Hunger is not a production problem.