DEVELOPMENT: More Than a Billion Going Hungry

Hunger 'kills 17,000 children per day'

By: azhar12

Somewhere in the world, a child dies of hunger every five seconds -- even though the planet has more than enough food for all. Ban Ki-moon, the U.N. secretary-general, laid out the sobering statistic as he kicked off a three-day summit on world food security in Rome on Monday. "Today, more than 1 billion people are hungry," he told the ...

14 days ago

Ban-Ki-moon observes fast in solidarity with billions of hungry ...

By: jonnalagadda3

United Nations Secretary General Ban-Ki-moon has observed a 24-hour fast in solidarity with a billion hungry people around the world, his spokesperson Marie Okabe told the media on Sunday. Ban who observed the fast this weekend, ahead of the World Food Summit in Rome, will deliver a speech at the opening of the three-day summit beginning today. ...

15 days ago

49 Million People in the US Suffer From Hunger

By: steph10

  Yesterday the US Department of Agriculture released the most recent data on hunger in the United States. It verifies what we already knew - hunger is on the increase in our country. More than 49 million people in the US currently reside in households that have trouble putting food on the table. Even more disturbing, nearly one in four ...

13 days ago

UN 'Hunger Summit' opens in Rome

By: pritpal_tanwer

A UN summit on the plight of the planet's one billion hungry opens on Monday, with activists warning it risks being a waste of time as leaders of the world's wealthiest nations are to be conspicuous by their absence.Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is the only leader from the Group of Eight industrialised countries expected to be among the ...

15 days ago