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/ 11 October 2011
G20 ministers meeting this week must take action to stop speculation on commodity markets that is fuelling food prices and hunger, say economists.
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/ 18 November 2009
The UN says the Horn of Africa is one of the most critical hunger areas in the world, with 23-million people not getting enough to eat.
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/ 15 October 2009
The Democratic Republic of Congo has extremely alarming levels of hunger, according to the 2009 Global Hunger Index report released this week.
The global economic crisis will help push 100-million people into poverty this year through lost jobs and lower earnings, a UN agency said on Friday.
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/ 24 September 2008
Britain has pledged -million for drought-hit Ethiopia, where 9,6-million people are in need of emergency food aid.
A single mother — desperate to get her only child some more food –offers to give him away to an aid worker. That is how bad the situation is.