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Thursday, November 24, 2005

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No developing region is on track to meet the international goal of reducing the number of hungry people by half, a UN agency has warned.

Nearly 6 million children die from hunger or malnutrition every year, the Food and Agriculture Organisation says, with many deaths resulting from treatable diseases such as diarrhoea, pneumonia, malaria and measles.

At the World Food Summit in 1996, world leaders announced a plan to halve the number of hungry people by 2015, however this promise is likely to be broken.

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