Report shows world hunger increasing.(Column)

National Catholic Reporter | April 2, 2004| | Copyright

As the United States was appropriating $87 billion for Iraq, the United Nations was announcing that the number of hungry people in the world was increasing, reversing steady progress over the last three decades. The Rome-based Food and Agricultural Organization said that one in every seven persons is malnourished and that the goal of halving world hunger by the year 2015 is out of reach.

A total of 842 million hungry in the world in the 1995-97 reporting period increased by 13 million in the 1999-2001 period. The rise in hunger came even though the world produced ...

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