This chapter focuses on nutrition, and it asks questions about the nature of malnutrition and under nutrition. Perhaps the most helpful general conceptual framework on hunger is that suggested by Watts and Bohle. Most micronutrient deficiencies are readily solved by dietary supplements or by the fortification of foodstuffs while they are being processed and manufactured. Thus in Europe and North America salt is commonly fortified with iodine, bread with vitamins, toothpaste with fluoride, and cornflakes with niacin. Under nutrition and malnutrition are the consequences of the inter-relation of a complex nexus of variables. Hunger is more than just a temporary physical discomfort, the most that is ever normally experienced in the nutritionally comfortable developed countries. The physical development of hungry children is impaired to the extent that they may be wasted, stunted and seriously underweight. Desertification, soil erosion and other negative environmental consequences have been explained in this way, with famine at only one remove once the degradation is underway.