| The State of Food Insecurity in the World: Economic Crises – Impacts and Lessons Learned
World Food Program, Food and Agriculture Orgabization of the United Nations, October 12, 2009, online edition, 61p (PDF)
"The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2009 is FAO’s tenth progress report on world hunger since the 1996 World Food Summit (WFS). This report highlights the fact that, even before the food crisis and the economic crisis, the number of hungry people had been increasing slowly but steadily. With the onset of these crises, however, the number of hungry people in the world increased sharply."
Go to the report at:
http://docustore.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/newsroom/wfp209430.pdf
H5/01-10 posted January 4, 2010
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