The phrase "experiencing hunger" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe the state of feeling hungry or having a strong desire for food. Example: After skipping breakfast, I was experiencing hunger by mid-morning and couldn't wait for lunchtime.
Officials say more than 18 million people are experiencing hunger, including more than 1 million children.
Food insecurity is variously defined as experiencing hunger, inability to secure enough food of sufficient quality and quantity to enable good health and participation in society, and cutting down on food due to financial necessity.
To mark World Food Day today, the Food and Agriculture Organisation has launched a website on world hunger, which includes an interactive map that shows trends in the percentage of the world's population experiencing hunger in recent decades.
Despite huge strides in reducing poverty and hunger over the past 10 years – the UN is confident the millennium development goal to halve the number of people experiencing hunger can be achieved by 2015 – one in eight people go to bed hungry every night, and each year 2.3 million children die from malnutrition.
Her words were in marked contrast to the conclusions of the cross-party report, which says structural issues such as benefit delays and cuts, coupled with low wages and rising living costs, are predominantly to blame for tens of thousands of families experiencing hunger.
Things like perceptual states (such as seeing something) or what Swain calls sensation states (such as experiencing hunger, thirst, pain, or other things which we sense but not necessarily through the five senses) are counted (by stipulation) as non-propositional reasons for the purposes of his theory.
Each will experience hunger, cold, powerlessness, boredom.
From one to two every day, at 1550 AM on the radio dial, you can experience hunger pangs.
Then almost 30% of households reported that they had experienced hunger in the past year; the proportion has dropped sharply, to 13% in 2012.
But Matthew will never be any good on his own, and he experiences hunger and despair before finding security as the page of a monk from St Edmonds Abbey, Doncaster.
"Some would likely experience hunger as well as homelessness; money spent on food isn't available to pay the rent, and with income this low, it can be very difficult to do both".
