ABSTRACT
The conquest of hunger and food insecurity is a much more complex phenomenon than merely increasing food production and improving food distribution. Hunger and food insecurity has to be seen as the characteristic of people not having enough to eat. Entitlement failure or decline can be due to various factors including absence of institutional sanctions to access the available food and available food being culturally unacceptable. Hunger manifests itself at the individual or household level as inability to have physical and economic access to food, undernourishment, malnourishment, nutrient deficiency, metabolic disorders, loss of weight, apathy, entitlement failure, etc. and even loss of dignity as in the case of a beggar. A comparison of the perspectives of hunger reveals several important common elements. In both the economic perspective and social perspective of hunger, its complexity is well recognised. Communities' perspective on hunger and food insecurity was learnt through a process of cumulative learning.
