these estimates translate into roughly million million and million children under age respectively the relationship between food insecurity and poverty and wellbeing varies by region demonstrating that definitions of food insecurity depend on regional context and encompass more than monetary poverty alone finally correlations of food insecurity and income per capita between and show that some regions were harder hit by the shocks in food prices and the great recession than others in addition further research on how food insecurity differs between children and adults will be important for future efforts to address and reduce child hunger