Tuesday, April 05, 2005
FAO
"The UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) estimates that we already grow enough food to provide everyone on earth with well more than the 2,770 calories per day needed (on average) for a healthy, active life. Yet an estimated 815 million people are chronically undernourished, meaning they routinely receive less than 90 percent of the minimum caloric intake needed for normal growth and development, and a healthy, productive life. One person in five in the world's developing countries fits this description."
"According to the FAO, 55 percent of the 12 million child deaths each year are related to malnutrition. The UN World Food Summit in Rome in 2002 called on rich countries to commit $24 billion per year to halve the number of hungry people by 2015."
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