6에서 누구든개는 굶주리고 있다

유엔 식량 농업 기구 (FAO) 관리는 저것을, 때문에 주말에 보고했다 전쟁, 가뭄, 정치 불안정성, 높은 식품값 및 빈곤 의 굶주림은 지금 - 작년의 915백만에서 11% 높은 쪽으로 - 1.02 10억개에 영향을 미친다.

재정적인 용해는 FAO 총재가 "세계를 위한 통렬한 조합이라고 가장 비난받기 쉬웠던." 칭한 무슨을 Jacques Diouf에 있는 위기를 합성했다

Compared with last year, there are 100 million more people who are hungry, meaning they consume fewer than 1,800 calories a day, the agency said.

“No part of the world is immune,” Mr Diouf said, emphasising that “all world regions have been affected by the rise of food insecurity.”

The crisis is a humanitarian one but it is also a political issue.

Officials presenting the new estimates in Rome sought to stress the link between hunger and instability, noting that soaring prices for staples such as rice triggered riots in the developing world last year.

Josette Sheeran of the World Food Programme, another UN food agency, said hungry people had rioted in at least 30 countries last year. Most notably, soaring food prices led to deadly riots in Haiti and the overthrow of the prime minister.

“A hungry world is a dangerous world,” Ms Sheeran said. “Without food, people have only three options - they riot, they emigrate or they die. None of these are acceptable options.”

Even though prices have retreated from their mid-2008 highs, they are still “stubbornly high” in some domestic markets, according to the FAO.

On average, food prices were 24 percent higher in real terms at the end of 2008 compared to 2006, it said.

“Malnutrition kills through the fact that it weakens the immune system of a child,” said Andrei Engstrand-Neacsu, a Kenya-based spokesman for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in East Africa. Some 22 million of the 1 billion hungry people counted by the United Nations are in the drought-stricken Horn of Africa, he said.

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