Financial crash deepens food crisis
China Daily | Updated: 2008-10-17 07:50
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Palestinians living below the poverty line collect their bi-monthly allocation of enriched flour, oil, salt, sugar and chickpeas from a World Food Program warehouse April 21 in the West Bank Palestinian town of Dura. The UN food agency said the world faced a "silent tsunami" of soaring food prices, plunging as many as 100 million people into hunger. Getty Images |
Nearly 1 billion people went hungry yesterday as the world marked World Food Day.
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