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Recent studies suggest the African nation of Burundi has the highest levels of hunger. More than 10 years of war, along with poverty and overpopulation, have strongly affected the nation’s economic and nutritional conditions. 

Along many of the hillsides in Burundi’s northern Ngozi province, workers are digging and planting. It is the hungriest place on earth.

The United Nations World Food Program is currently paying more than 5,700 local farmers to work other people's lands. 

Fifty-year-old Matthias Bukuru is one of the farmers. He says he once worked on a farm and was paid just 12 cents a day. He says that amount would only buy him a small number of sweet potatoes. He says he could not feed his family.

In East Asia and Southeast Asia hunger is common. However, in Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, the hunger situation has improved. 

The Burundian civil war ended in 2005 after 12 years of fighting.Matthias Bukuru and many others say that they returned home after years and had no money to plant the food.

At a nearby clinic, crying babies, older children and underweight mothers fill the room. Children receiving food from the United Nations World Food Program. 

Pascaline Minani has a 6-year-old son in the program. She walked five kilometers carrying her baby to get to the center. She is seeking supplements to improve her milk. She worries that without supplements her baby might suffer severe hunger.

Pascaline Minani says she cannot stop thinking about food. She says her only wish is to feed her children once a day, and if there is more, she will feed herself.

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