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Tue 11 Nov 2009Over one billion go hungry every day, summit told
SPEAKING IN Rome last night, the United Nations’ secretary general Ban Ki-Moon expressed his concern that even though the world has “more than enough” food, just over a billion people still go hungry. Mr Ban was speaking to reporters at the end of the first day of a three-day UN world summit on food security in Rome.
Mr Ban defended the work done by the summit, arguing that it represented a positive step on the road to next month’s Copenhagen summit on climate change.
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