Nutrition
- India could see crop yields fall by 30 percent by 2050, a potential
disaster in a nation of one billion people where many are malnourished
(Agence France Presse, 30 April)
- 5.6 million children die every year from undernutrition (UNICEF,
Facts on Children, 14 June 2007)
- Every minute some 16 persons die of starvation. The vast majority
of them are children under the age of 5 (“fast facts: the faces
of poverty”)
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