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Article: Report shows world hunger increasing.(Column)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- April 2, 2004
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As the United States was appropriating $87 billion for Iraq, the United Nations was announcing that the number of hungry people in the world was increasing, reversing steady progress over the last three decades. The Rome-based Food and Agricultural Organization said that one in every seven persons is malnourished and that the goal of halving world hunger by the year 2015 is out of reach.
A total of 842 million hungry in the world in the 1995-97 reporting period increased by 13 million in the 1999-2001 period. The rise in hunger came even though the world produced enough food. Indeed in 22 nations the number of undernourished decreased in 1995-2000. But the news ...