UN food summit ends with 'crumbs' in hunger fight

Published on 18 November 2009

The head of a U.N. food agency expressed regret Wednesday that an anti-hunger summit failed to result in precise promises of funding, and critics said the meeting had only thrown crumbs to the world's 1 billion people without enough to eat. (..) The World Food Program will need $1 billion to provide food aid in the next six months in the region that includes Ethiopia, Somalia and other countries.

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