Tonight 850 Million People Will Go to Bed Hungry

“Tonight, nearly 850 million people will go to bed hungry, the overwhelming majority in the developing nations of Africa and Asia. That is the depressingly familiar central fact about world hunger, highlighted again by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation report on the state of what the FAO calls “food insecurity”.
The above quote is from a series of articles on hunger which appeared in The Independent (UK) November 26, 2003.

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