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UN report blames higher food prices and the ongoing world-wide economic crisis.
At least 22,000 children die each year in agriculture-related incidents.
Ten years after world leaders pledged to halve the number of underfed people the number of hungry is actually on the rise, the United Nations said.
Sudan's Darfur region remains the most pressing humanitarian problem in the world, the Food and Agriculture Organisation says.
The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has been detected among poultry in Africa for the first time, international health officials have announced.
A United Nations agency has warned against pre-emptive bans of poultry imports to ward off a possible bird flu outbreak, saying they are unnecessary and could be damaging to world trade.
The World Health Organisation has given tacit confirmation that Chinese farmers used controversial anti-viral drugs on poultry in the battle against bird flu, a practice

A UN agency has issued an urgent international appeal in Algiers for $83 million to curb a deadly locust plague ravaging North and West African crops.

Hundreds of millions of people are starving across the world and the number is set to rise, warns a new UN report.

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