The African nation of Zambia, for instance, has only enough food available to provide its population with 1,870 calories on average, per day, according to a striking
global map in the October issue of National Geographic — and in truth, in much of the world, such calorie counts offer an inflated view of what's actually accessible to most citizens, due to
widespread poverty, civil unrest, natural disasters,
corruption, government mismanagement, food - distribution failures, and other issues.