Press conference: Launch of The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2008
The number of hungry people has increased in 2008, mainly due to high food prices, FAO estimates. The ongoing financial and economic crisis could push even more people into hunger and poverty next year.
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FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf calls on US President-elect Barack Obama to make the eradication of world hunger a priority on his agenda and to host a World Summit on the issue in the first half of next year.
Global warming and the biofuel boom threaten to push the number of hungry beyond the present level of 923 million in the decades to come.This year's World Food Day Ceremony, with special guest speaker, Egypt's First Lady, Suzanne Mubarak highlight the 2008 theme - World Food Security: the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy
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The state of food insecurity in the world
