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1.02 billion hungry

The Italian newspaper La Repubblica reports on The State of Food Insecurity (SOFI), released jointly by FAO and WFP today.  The report reveals that over a billion people currently suffer from hunger.  This figure is the highest since 1970, and it has risen by 9% in this past year.

More about SOFI here.

More from FAO on hunger here, including an interactive hunger map.

Posted by GiselleF on 14 October 2009 in Food Crisis |

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