Rising prices tip another 75 million towards starvation: FAO

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ROME (AFP) — Global numbers afflicted by acute hunger rose from 850 million to 925 million by the start of this year because of rising prices, the head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation said Wednesday.

The number of people suffering from malnutrition, before the worst effects of global price rises, "rose just in 2007 by 75 million," Jacques Diouf, director-general of the Rome-based agency, told an Italian parliament committee, according to ANSA news agency.

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1. That's the same number of people that were born last year.

Coincidence?

Or signal?

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2. $30 billion?

More money always solves the problems.