Financial crisis adds more to ranks of global hungry

06-21-2009

One in six - or one-sixth of the global population, now suffer from hunger and do not have access to enough food; 1 billion undernourished around the world, UN head says. Number has jumped by more than 100 million in last year. He calls for new world food order, urges more spending on agriculture.

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Tags: FAO, Food and Agriculture Organization, food insecurity, hunger, Jacques Diouf, Josette Sheeran, UN, World Food Program




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