Intensive agriculture requires farmers to borrow money in order to purchase the seeds, fertilizers and pesticide they need to cultivate their land. Each failed harvest due to droughts or floods increases their debts, and every year thousands of them lose any hope of getting out the vicious circle and commit suicide. For millions of rural people living off the land, the combination of climate instability and the adoption of non-sustainable agriculture is a recipe for acute poverty and malnutrition. One in three of the world's malnourished children lives in India, with more than 6,000 children below 5 dying everyday, something that could be reversed by the simple addition of fruit trees into rural villages
http://www.projectgreenhands.org/the-facts/the-need/poverty-and-malnutrition
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