Feed the world? We are fighting a losing battle, UN admits
A Links entry from Tuesday, February 26, 2008Feed the world? We are fighting a losing battle, UN admits
The Guardian:
The United Nations warned yesterday that it no longer has enough money to keep global malnutrition at bay this year in the face of a dramatic upward surge in world commodity prices, which have created a “new face of hunger”.
It’s really quite sad that while the Pentagon’s budget is a record $515.4 billion this year, the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) is $2.9 billion. (Via I cite.)
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