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| 5 months ago
ROME – The global financial meltdown has pushed the ranks of the world's hungry to a record 1 billion , a grim milestone that poses a threat to peace and security, U.N. food officials said Friday. Because of war, drought, political instability ...
News Source: One World
| 5 months ago
World hunger is estimated to reach historic highs in 2009 with more than 1 million people going hungry every day -- but there are solutions, reports the UN food agency. What's the Story? "A dangerous mix of the global economic slowdown combined with...
News Source: China News
| 5 months ago
Because of war, drought, political instability, high food prices and poverty, hunger now affects one in six people, by the United Nations' estimate. The financial meltdown has compounded the crisis in what the head of the UN Food and Agricultural...
News Source: Uinta County News
| 5 months ago
Climate changes are underway in the United States and are projected to grow. Climate-related changes are already observed in the United States and its coastal waters. These include increases in heavy downpours, rising temperature and sea level,...
News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 5 months ago
Addressing a news conference in Rome, UN Food and Agriculture Organisation head Jacques Diouf said the number of people going hungry has jumped by more than 100 million in the past year. He called for a new world food order, enshrining the right to...
News Source: The independent
| 5 months ago
The number of people going hungry is set to top one billion a day for the first time as green shoots in the world's biggest economies spell disaster for their poorer cousins. In line with other commodities, food prices are back on the rise. Combined...