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World Food Day reminder: Recession + Food Insecurity = Worsening World Hunger

World Food Day reminder: Recession + Food Insecurity = Worsening World Hunger

The problem of food insecurity affects the world’s small-scale farms and rural areas the most. This is because these places are also where ‘70 percent of the world’s hungry live and work.’ As the world commemorates World Food Day on October 16, some depressing statistics confront the governments of the world: an estimated increase of 105 [...]