Every 3.5 seconds someone dies of the effects of hunger and malnutrition - that's 25,000 people every day, 10 million people every year. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), hunger and malnutrition claim more lives than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. More people die of hunger than are killed in wars, although, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), there is enough food in the world to feed 12 billion people - double the world population. Realising the right to food is therefore one of the goals of both international and German development cooperation.
