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Differentiate between seasonal hunger and chronic hunger?
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Hunger is another aspect indicating food insecurity . Hunger is not just an expression of poverty, it brings about poverty.
The attainment of food securit y, therefore, involves eliminating current hunger and reducing the risks of future hunger.
Hunger has chronic and seasonal dimensions:
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Chronic hunger is a
consequence of diets persistently inadequate in terms of quantity and/or quality.
Poor people suffer from chronic hunger because of their very low income and in turn inability to buy food even for survival.
- Seasonal hunger is related to cycles of food growing and harvesting. This is prevalent in rural areas because of the seasonal nature of agricultural activities and in urban areas because of casual laborers.
