Thursday 22 October 2009

Global hunger worsening, warns UN

 

Global hunger map

"FAO estimates that 1.02 billion people are undernourished worldwide in 2009," it said. "This represents more hungry people than at any time since 1970 and a worsening of the unsatisfactory trends that were present even before the economic crisis."

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