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While the number of hungry people stands at a record one billion, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in a new report that the battle against hunger can be won with the right policies, investment and political will.

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Nearly 200 million children in poor countries have stunted growth because of insufficient nutrition, according to a new report published by UNICEF yesterday before a three-day international summit on the problem of world hunger.

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NAIROBI (AP) – Parents in some of Africa's poorest countries are cutting back on school, clothes and basic medical care just to give their children a meal once a day, experts say. Still, it is not enough.

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ROME (AP) – Even before the economic crisis pushed the ranks of the world's hungry to a record 1 billion, declining aid and investment in agriculture had been steadily increasing the number of undernourished people for more than a decade, a U.N. food agency said Wednesday.

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More than a billion people — a sixth of the world's population — are now hungry, a historic high due largely to the global economic crisis and stubbornly high food prices, a UN agency said yesterday.

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PARIS – Ghanaian football player Solomon Opoku heard the Serbian fans screaming racist insults and turned around as they set upon him, hurling punches and abuse.

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Diouf who was in Manila last week said the world’s richest economies like the US and the European Union should be more flexible and open up trade to developing countries.
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"This is a costly disease that could even be bigger than the mad cow disease that hit the United Kingdom in recent years. We want to be sure that there is international solidarity to ensure proper control of the disease," Diouf said.
[DatePublished] => 2004-02-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1704647 [AuthorName] => Rocel Felix [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 239929 [Title] => 1st world summit on agriculture planned [Summary] => A first-ever World Summit on Agriculture aimed at fighting global hunger will be organized by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. said yesterday.

De Venecia said FAO director-general Jacques Diouf personally accepted his proposed "world summit on agriculture" among parliaments in five continents. It calls for "parliaments of the world" to mobilize their resources to fight hunger.

No date has been set yet for the summit.
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While the number of hungry people stands at a record one billion, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in a new report that the battle against hunger can be won with the right policies, investment and political will.

[DatePublished] => 2009-11-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804865 [AuthorName] => Pia Lee-Brago [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 522345 [Title] => UN says hunger stunts some 200 million children [Summary] =>

Nearly 200 million children in poor countries have stunted growth because of insufficient nutrition, according to a new report published by UNICEF yesterday before a three-day international summit on the problem of world hunger.

[DatePublished] => 2009-11-12 04:10:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 514413 [Title] => UN: Record 1 billion go hungry [Summary] =>

NAIROBI (AP) – Parents in some of Africa's poorest countries are cutting back on school, clothes and basic medical care just to give their children a meal once a day, experts say. Still, it is not enough.

[DatePublished] => 2009-10-16 13:36:58 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 513766 [Title] => UN: World hunger on the rise for a decade [Summary] =>

ROME (AP) – Even before the economic crisis pushed the ranks of the world's hungry to a record 1 billion, declining aid and investment in agriculture had been steadily increasing the number of undernourished people for more than a decade, a U.N. food agency said Wednesday.

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More than a billion people — a sixth of the world's population — are now hungry, a historic high due largely to the global economic crisis and stubbornly high food prices, a UN agency said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2009-06-20 01:03:19 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 438155 [Title] => Little is done to stop racism in Euro football [Summary] =>

PARIS – Ghanaian football player Solomon Opoku heard the Serbian fans screaming racist insults and turned around as they set upon him, hurling punches and abuse.

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Diouf who was in Manila last week said the world’s richest economies like the US and the European Union should be more flexible and open up trade to developing countries.
[DatePublished] => 2004-02-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1704647 [AuthorName] => Rocel Felix [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 240024 [Title] => FAO leads international effort to solve bird flu problem [Summary] => The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) director-general Jacques Diouf is urging the international community to help affected countries cope with the economic devastation caused by the avian flu pandemic.

"This is a costly disease that could even be bigger than the mad cow disease that hit the United Kingdom in recent years. We want to be sure that there is international solidarity to ensure proper control of the disease," Diouf said.
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De Venecia said FAO director-general Jacques Diouf personally accepted his proposed "world summit on agriculture" among parliaments in five continents. It calls for "parliaments of the world" to mobilize their resources to fight hunger.

No date has been set yet for the summit.
[DatePublished] => 2004-02-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097133 [AuthorName] => Jose Rodel Clapano [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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