BBC report on failure to reduce hunger

Continuing struggle: Little has changed since 1996
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Ambitious plans to halve world hunger by 2015 are facing failure, says a report from the United Nations.

Experts predict that it could take a century to meet the target if progress were to continue at the current rate.

Jacques Diouf, the director general of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said that progress had “virtually ground to a halt” in the past year.

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