FAO Forecasts Increase in Global Hunger

(19 June09-RV) New estimates for the UN’S Food and Agriculture Organisation show that the number of hungry people in the world will reach an all-time high in 2009. Fao forecasted  the number of people living in hunger would reach 1.2 billion this year, exacerbated by persistently high prices for staples following the food crisis of 2006-2008. Executive Director of the World Food Programme Josette Sheeran says, world leaders need to take action..