Fraction of Iraq costs could feed world poor-WFP http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L19676871.htmBRUSSELS, Nov 19 (Reuters) - A fraction of the cost of the Iraq war would be enough to feed the world's poor and help boost peace and security, the head of the United Nations food agency said on Wednesday.
"We look at tens of billions being spent today in Iraq, the conflict... (With) even a small percentage of the commitment that the world has made to Iraq, you could feed every hungry child in the world," James Morris, executive director of the World Food Programme (WFP), told a news conference.
He said people who were hungry and "at their wit's end" were more susceptible to the message of people wishing to harm the world.
"The message of those who would do the world harm does not resonate as well with people who are not hungry as it does with those at their wits' end," he said.
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