Global recession halts decades of steady progress in reducing world hunger

Independent: Two decades of steady progress in reducing world hunger have come to a stop with the recession of the last four years, new figures from the United Nations reveal. The number of people without enough to eat fell from one billion in 1990-92 to 867 million in 2007-2009, the figures from the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) show, but then went back up to 868m in the period 2010-2012, while in Africa, the worsening trend is even more pronounced. The development "should sound alarm bells...

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