Withered tomatoes, thin radish, malnourished and tired peoples anywhere -- this is the scene you can often see in the food market in Nepali capital Kathmandu. Ail bahadur Lama, a 12-year-old boy, works in a tea shop in Chabhil of kathmandu. He begins his work in the tea shop at 6:00 am, ends at 7:30 pm everyday, getting Rs.1000 salary from the shop. He told Xinhua he wanted to be a driver in the future,' but if I can't get anything to eat, how can I think of other things like education?' he added. Sanjana Thapa, a 14-year-old girl of Kathmandu City, had been hungry for a number of days. 'I would get to eat if my mother earned anything,' she said. According to a joint study of the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, nearly 3.4 million people have been facing acute food scarcity in Nepal. There were not only the general people, even Constituent Assembly members said that they sometimes faced absence of food. Shanta Chandharey, Constituent Assembly (CA) member of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) (CPN-UML) shared with Xinhua his hungry experience, saying she had stayed almost nine days simply by drinking water in the absence of food. Many Nepalese had recognized the leading causes of the hunger and take actions to hunger reduction. Shanta Chandhare expressed her commitment to guarantee rights to food as a basic right of the people, and many CA members admit that the new constitution should ensure the rights to food. The government has take actions to mitigate food crisis too. Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal Thursday called for revolutionary and scientific land reforms to reduce food shortage in the country. 'My party had stressed on revolutionary land reform to enhance the productivity of land by transforming its ownership to the real farmers,' local newspaper the Rising Nepal cited Madhav Kumar Nepal as saying. 