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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 [...]
Global Recession: Main Threat in World Hunger

Global Recession: Main Threat in World Hunger

The United Nations agencies of Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Program (WFP), along with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), published on Friday 19 June, the most recent estimates regarding hunger worldwide. While the statistics are alarming, the findings are really not surprising. These agencies declare [...]