And, finally, how can it be that chronically hungry people will 'eat' medicines while going without their staple foods?

Unlike chronically hungry people, though, they were strong and bright-eyed.

There are 1 billion chronically hungry people in the world and recent reports say this number could grow by 100 million in 2009.

Chronically hungry in his early 20s, he walked nine days to an Indian border town with road-building work.

There are approximately 300 million chronically hungry children in the world.

But for close to a decade now, we have been called upon to feed a rapidly growing population of the chronically hungry.

At least 80 percent of the world's chronically hungry live in rural areas and over half of them are subsistence farmers.

That would be enough to entice the chronically hungry, myself included.

A large number of people worldwide are chronically hungry or lack genuine, long-term food security.

Those with "very low food security" could be called "chronically hungry" or "starving."