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Recession Compounds World Food Crisis

By Roberta Rampton March 12, 2009

The global economic downturn has compounded the food crisis, pushing more people over the brink of hunger and threatening stability around the world, the head of the United Nations’ food relief agency said March 3. Food supplies are tight and expensive, and more people in poor countries are unable to afford what they need because

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Aid Groups Plan Renewed Fight On Hunger

By Roberta Rampton March 5, 2009

Lost jobs, faltering banks and recession have pushed the issue of world hunger out of U. S. headlines, but U. S. aid groups are set to launch a plan to refocus attention on the issue, former U. S. senator George McGovern said Feb. 23. The plan by aid organizations including Feed the Children, Oxfam America,

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Financial Crisis Increases Hunger

By Simon Denyer February 19, 2009

The economic crisis is pushing the world’s hungriest people to the wall, but a fraction of the cost of financial rescue packages could make a huge difference, the head of the UN’s World Food Program said Dec. 16. “I don’t think it is just an issue of compassion, it is an issue of global peace

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Nearly a billion hungry, food prices high

January 8, 2009

High food prices helped push another 40 million people into hunger this year, the U. N.’s food agency said Dec. 9, raising the number of undernourished people in the world to 963 million. A report by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) that said fewer and fewer people can afford decent meals, especially in Asia

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UN calls food summit in 2009, hopes for fair trade

By Robin Pomeroy December 4, 2008

The world should hold a food summit in the first half of next year to seek fairer trade and help farmers in poor countries make a decent living, the head of the United Nations food agency said Nov. 19. Jacques Diouf, head of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), said the summit would seek to

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Hunger still bites in land of plenty

By Charles Abbott December 4, 2008

Some 36.2 million Americans struggle to get enough food to eat and one-third of them go hungry from time to time, according to a government survey taken before this year’s economic downturn. Anti-hunger groups said hunger has worsened since the government’s survey of 45,600 households at the end of 2007. They want Congress to increase

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UN food lines will grow

By Megan Rowling November 6, 2008

The UN food agency expects to feed around a third more hungry people next year, as the global financial crisis adds to the pressure of high food prices on poor nations, a top official said Oct. 15. Sheila Sisulu, deputy executive director at the UN World Food Program (WFP), said an increase of around 30

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Recession Compounds World Food Crisis

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Financial Crisis Increases Hunger

Nearly a billion hungry, food prices high

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UN food lines will grow

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