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At
a time when the global economic crisis dominates the news, the world needs to
be reminded that not everyone works in offices and factories. The crisis is
stalking the small-scale farms and rural areas of the world, where 70 percent
of the world's hungry live and work.
With an estimated increase of 105 million hungry people in 2009, there are now
1.02 billion malnourished people in the world, meaning that almost one sixth of
all humanity is suffering from hunger.
Both public and private investments are needed, more specifically through
targeted public investment to encourage and facilitate private investment,
especially by farmers themselves.
On the occasion of World Food Week and World Food Day 2009, let us reflect on
those numbers and the human suffering behind them. Crisis or no crisis, we have
the know-how to do something about hunger. We also have the ability to find
money to solve problems when we consider them important. Let us work together
to make sure hunger is recognized as a critical problem, and solve it. The
World Summit on Food Security proposed by FAO for November 2009 could be
fundamental for eradicating hunger.
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