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In My Hunger Days
USDA pessimistic on hunger outlook |
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09 Jul 2008 |
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| Posted at 3:57 PM on 09 Jul 2008 In 2006, the U.S. Department of Agriculture calculated that 849 million people across the globe were "food-insecure" -- consuming less than 2,100 calories a day, or, in a word, hungry. But in its 2006 Food Security Report, the agency took an optimistic view of the situation, suggesting that the number of malnourished would fall to 800 million by 2017. Well, so much for that idea: In the just-released ... |
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| Topics: biofuels, Department of Agriculture, food, news (all these topics) |
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