Hunger and food poverty in food-secure societies of the Global North have proven to be continuously significant in the lives of too large a number of people in the overall context. Welfare state safeguards are indeed seen as a way to reduce or avoid the spread of hunger in society in the event of a crisis. Against this background, however, the currently existing abundance is seen as a reaction to experiences of hunger in history, so that the fear of renewed food shortages drives the abundance. Thus, in principle, everyone is threatened or affected by hunger—sometimes more, sometimes less acutely. In many other countries beyond the Global North, everyday hunger and the unequal distribution of available food are part of everyday life. At the end of this introduction to the connection between hunger and food poverty in social work, starting from the food secure position, a view into the global situation is opened as a starting point for further curiosity about this area. Broadening the view to include the global food supply is significant because the over-supply of some results in the under-supply of others and these globally effective distributional inequities need to be exposed.