World's hungry reach more than 1 billion in '09: U.N.

2009/10/14 06:30:46 @Reuters: International News

ROME (Reuters) - A combination of the food crisis and the global economic downturn has pushed more than 1 billion people into hunger in 2009, U.N. agencies said on Wednesday, confirming a grim forecast released earlier this year. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=Da4z08qTQBs:t3K-jSfhSqQ:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=Da4z08qTQBs:t3K-jSfhSqQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=Da4z08qTQBs:t3K-jSfhSqQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=Da4z08qTQBs:t3K-jSfhSqQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=Da4z08qTQBs:t3K-jSfhSqQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/Da4z08qTQBs" height="1" width="1"/
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