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Rises in the costs of living making poor people less able to afford items. Poor people spend a greater portion of their budgets on food than richer people. As a result, poor households and those near the poverty threshold can be particularly vulnerable to increases in food prices. For example, in late 2007 increases in the price of grains[86] led to food riots in some countries.[87][88][89] The World Bank warned that 100 million people were at risk of sinking deeper into poverty.[90] Threats to the supply of food may also be caused by drought and the water crisis.[91] Intensive farming often leads to a vicious cycle of exhaustion of soil fertility and decline of agricultural yields.[92] Approximately 40% of the world's agricultural land is seriously degraded.[93][94] In Africa, if current trends of soil degradation continue, the continent might be able to feed just 25% of its population by 2025, according to United Nations University's Ghana-based Institute for Natural Resources in Africa.[95] Every year nearly 11 million children living in poverty die before their fifth birthday. 1.02 billion people go to bed hungry every night.[96]
According to the Global Hunger Index, Sub-Saharan Africa had the highest child malnutrition rate of the world's regions over the 2001-2006 period.[97]
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