More hungry this year because of global crisis: FAO

UN agency estimated that more than one billion hungry in this 2009.

Rome. Hunger in the world will have a new record in 2009 with over one billion people suffer from it daily, according to new figures presented in Rome this Friday by the Organization of the United Nations Food and Agriculture (FAO ).

 The increase in the number of hungry people increased because of the international crisis that has reduced revenues and increased unemployment among the poorest and not to reduced harvests, he stressed the UN agency, which believes that this year there will be a 11 per cent more hungry.

 "A dangerous mix of the global economic recession combined with high prices of food, persistent in many countries, has pushed some 100 million more people last year to chronic hunger and poverty," said director general of FAO Jacques Diouf.

".. continued rise of local staple food prices in developing countries, even though global food prices have fallen from their 2008 highs ."

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