Global Hunger is Increasing, UN Report Says

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

http://www.wisconsinagconnection.com/story-national.cfm?Id=1274&yr=2003

After declining for years, the number of people in the world who are going hungry is on the rise, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization stated in its annual hunger report.

Throughout the first half of the 1990s, hunger fell steadily, according to the report. The number of hungry people in developing countries declined by 37 million during the first half of the 1990s but increased by 18 million in the second half.

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Nineteen countries, including China, Vietnam, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Peru, Brazil, Ghana and Namibia, succeeded in reducing the number of undernourished throughout the 1990s, the report says.

But in 26 countries, including Afghanistan, Congo, Yemen, the Philippines, Liberia, Kenya and Iraq, the number of undernourished people went up.
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[Resistance]

1. plenty of things are increasing these days

including corporate profits, unemployment and fear.

[Nlighten1]

2. The hungry will make their stand when they will stand for no more.

I have a feeling that day is close.