1 Billion Hungry


Nov 16th, 2009 4:00 PM UTC
By Beth Adler

As I posted below, today is the kickoff of the World Food Summit in Rome. This weekend, the Director General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Jacques Diouf, undertook a 24-hour fast to protest the astonishing figure of over 1 billion hungry people around the world. The FAO is also currently running a campaign against global hunger, which you should check out at www.1billionhungry.org.

TAGS: Food Security in Focus, United Nations

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