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October 16, 2009

Report: Little Progress in Reducing World Hunger Since 1990
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And today is World Food Day. The theme for this year is how to ensure
food security in times of crisis. A new report says the world has made
little progress in reducing hunger since 1990, pointing to twenty-nine
countries with alarming levels of malnutrition, mainly in Africa, where
high-risk hunger remains extremely pronounced.

Suresh Babu of the International Food Policy and Research Institute:
“When we talk about alarming and extremely serious condition in terms of
hunger and look at the countries in the red, they are Democratic
Republic of Congo, you have Burundi, you have Eritrea, Sierra Leone,
Chad and Ethiopia.”



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