"We have more hungry people in the world, than we ever had in the history of human kind."
After decades of progress fighting global hunger, the last few years have seen a precipitous increase in the number of hungry people in the world. Kostas Stamoulis, the Secretary General of the Committee on World Food Security, puts it starkly, “we have more hungry people in the world [today], than we ever had in the history of human kind.” The recent trend in hunger, shown in Figure 1, projects a historic high in 2009 with 1,020 million people going hungry every day. read more
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"We have more hungry people in the world, than we ever had in the history of human kind."
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