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Congratulations on finishing unit 2 of the online briefing program. This unit has given you a basic understanding of what hunger is in South Asia, the key issues it involves, and some of the strategies created to end it.

• Chronic, persistent hunger—a day-by-day, debilitating human experience

• 400 million hungry people—South Asia has one-half of the world's remaining hunger

• Rural issue—79% of the poor live in rural areas

• Different forms of hunger—food insecurity and livelihood insecurity, urban and rural hunger, and seasonal hunger

• Malnutrition takes toll—more than ½ of South Asian children are malnourished

• Women's well-being is crucial—malnourished women give birth to low birthweight babies

• Nexus of issues—hunger is linked to critical issues for humanity’s common future

• Poverty means lack of opportunity—poor lack access to health, education, and income

• Hunger increases population growth—where hunger has ended, birth rates fall

• Natural disasters and landlessness—contribute to the problems of hungry people

• Central planning and international aid—top-down successes are tempered by creation of dependency in people

• Women and local democracy are key—empowering local people - especially women - is critical to ending hunger in South Asia

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