"Soy has a central role to play in improving diets in Africa"

Africare Food for Development Director, Judy Bryson

"Corn-soy blend is the cornerstone of our nutritional program"

Save the Children Policy Advisor, Thoric Cederström Ph.D

Hunger and Malnutrition Fact Sheet

• One in seven people in the world today is undernourished¹. That is more than 68 times the population of Illinois and three times the entire US population.

• Of the 830 million² total undernourished people today, 791 million live in developing countries and 200 million are children under age 5 who are underweight for lack of food.³

• "Malnutrition is not a disease that runs its course, bringing immunity. Rather it is a process, with consequences that may extend not only into later life, but also into future generations... Some 30 million babies in the developing world—around 82,000 every day last year—were born with impaired growth due to poor nutrition during fetal life."⁴

• "Better nutrition will raise income⁵

• Examples of how soy is a proven life-saver, include Mozambique flood victims who ate soy biscuits dropped to them by the World Food Programme as they clung to trees for survival.

• Food aid shipments also build immeasurable bonds between the United States and other countries. People literally ran in fear from the American when U.S. Representative and Congressional Hunger Center Co-Chair Tony Hall (D-OH) made his first trip to North Korea in 1996. North Korean people saluted Hall when he made a repeat trip in 2000. The difference—multiple years of shipments of as many as 25 million life-saving bags of U.S. commodities, including a blend of corn and soy. That's about one bag per man, woman and child, and each sack bore an impression-making U.S. logo!

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