In politics, humanitarian aid, an social science, hunger is a condeetion in which a person, for a susteened period, is unable tae eat sufficient fuid tae meet basic nutreetional needs.

The FAO's fuid price index reflects chynges in the average internaitional price o fuid. The shairp rise in 2007/08 caused a global fuid creesis, wi fuid riots in dozens o kintras, an pushed well ower a hunder million intae extreme hunger. The shairp rise in 2010/11 contreibuted tae the Arab Ware.