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March 4th, 2009 at 5:15 am
False- They live in Asia.
March 4th, 2009 at 6:21 am
false – the majority live in Asia and the Pacific
March 4th, 2009 at 6:43 am
False. Asia.
March 4th, 2009 at 8:05 am
False – the majority live in Asia
March 4th, 2009 at 8:13 am
False. Almost 2/3 of the 790 million are in Asia and the Pacific.
March 4th, 2009 at 9:13 am
False…along with everyone else, I say Asia!
March 4th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
False — Asia and the Pacific
March 4th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
Asia and the Pacific region is home to over half the world’s population and nearly two thirds of the world’s hungry people
Also the number of undernourished people in the world increased by 75 million in 2007, largely due to higher food prices.
And more than 70 percent of the world’s 146 million underweight children under age five years live in just 10 countries, with more than 50 per cent located in South Asia alone
(Source: World Food Program Hunger Stats)
March 9th, 2009 at 10:13 am
The answer is:
False. Approximately 790 million people in the developing world are still chronically undernourished, almost two-thirds of whom reside in Asia and the Pacific.
Despite the food production rate being better than the population growth rate, there is still desperate hunger in many parts of the world.
(Sources: World Resources Institute, “Pilot Analysis of Global Ecosystems” (February 2001) and globalissues.org/article/26/poverty-facts-andstats, November 2008)