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DEVELOPMENT REPORT – October 28, 2002: UN World Food Report


By Jill Moss 1



This is the VOA Special English Development Report.


The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization says hunger kills millions of people each year --
especially children. The U-N organization says millions more people will die unless more money is invested to
fight against hunger.


This is based on the results of a new U-N study called “The State of Food
Insecurity in the World, Two-Thousand-Two.” It found that more than nine-
million people die each year from hunger. Six-million of them are children younger
than age five. Researchers also found that the number of starving people is growing
in some parts of the world.


The report says that about eight-hundred-forty-million people around the world are
not getting enough food to eat. Ninety-five percent of these people are in developing
countries.


The number of hungry people in developing countries has been reduced by only about two-million people a year
in the last ten years. At this rate, the total reduction will be less than ten percent by the year two-thousand-fifteen.
This is far less than the fifty percent decrease in hunger called for by the World Food Summit 2 in nineteen-ninetysix.


Researchers say that any small gains against hunger were the result of progress in large countries. China, for
example, reduced its number of hungry people by seventy-four- million. Six other countries also reduced their
numbers of hungry people. They are Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Nigeria, Ghana and Peru. However, the
situation worsened in forty-seven other countries.


Nick Parsons is a spokesman 3 for the U-N Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, Italy. He says the study
shows that progress in the fight against world hunger has been slowed to almost a halt. As a result, the U-N food
agency is calling on industrial and developing counties to increase public investment in agriculture. About
seventy percent of people suffering from severe hunger live in farming areas of developing countries. But the
report says government and international investment in agricultural development has been decreasing.


The U-N Food and Agriculture Organization says investment in hunger reduction can have important economic
effects for both rich and poor countries. It says that people who live longer and more productive 4 lives can help
improve the economy of their countries.


This VOA Special English Development Report was written by Jill Moss.



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4-H'er
abdominal delivery
adjustable speed motor
afterword
anax guttatus
aneerood
babycar
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beston
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burrowing organism
Byronian
campaign management firm
capricciosoes
carrying amount
ceflorin
Chakhmāq Bolāgh-e Pā'īn
class acts
Clemente
CLODRONIC
combined statement of income and earned surplus
compensation of guardian
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denturist
diamond shape
DotGain
duplicate licence
dye-fixing agent
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exoplasmosis
fetal hemoglobin
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field-synchronizing impulse
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juke box optical disk system
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look-aside registers
Lord Howe Rise
mama's boys
mellow consisting
milliangstrom
muonic neutrino
Myriophyllum alterniflorum
nadir plumment
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oil atomizer nozzle
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pesages
photokinesis
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polar dial
primitive vertebrae
quick response excitation
rack stake
radiumluminescence
raining cats and dogs
real mass
Regional Association for South America
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root van
roughness integrator
scrabbled
selenographic chart
Shipunovskiy Rayon
Sims' position
sodium bicarbonate
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submonomer
thermo-chemical dehydration
thermoelectric actinograph
thick-skinneds
Tibetia tongolensis
timber loader
transfer rabbit
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unconditional branch operator
unkeenly
venetias
volemite
Všeruby
wightly
zemni
zero-field emission