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Fri 06 Jun 2009Food for thought: Tom Arnold, Concern Worldwide
THE FRIDAY INTERVIEW:TOM ARNOLD is, in a sense, managing what might appear to be unmanageable. Two years ago, there were 850 million hungry people in the world. But a spike in food and energy prices left food aid campaigners nostalgic for that total: the number of malnourished people now stands at an unimaginable one billion, and counting.
The Concern Worldwide chief executive does admit to being dispirited at times.
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