40 million people pushed into hunger this year: FAO

19th December 2008

 
With 40 million people being pushed into hunger this year mostly due to soaring food prices, the number of undernourished people worldwide is approaching the 1-billion mark, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has said in a recent report. 

The total number of hungry people has risen to 963 million this year, up from 923 million last year, and FAO cautioned in the latest edition of its global hunger report that this number could rise further as a result of the ongoing financial and economic crisis.

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