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Jan 27 2002 (IPS)

Hunger is one of the worst miseries, and in spite of all the technological and social advances that humanity has achieved, more than 800 million people on the planet suffer its effects today.

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In slightly more technical terms, it is a matter of “food insecurity”. It is when people go hungry and fear dying of starvation, according to a definition posted on the website of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, better known as the FAO.

The FAO has convened a World Food Summit for June 2002 in which the main focus will be the need to intensify the fight against hunger worldwide.

The delegates are to make an assessment of what has been achieved since the previous summit, in 1996. On that occasion the Rome Declaration was signed, a commitment to cut the impact of world hunger in half by the year 2015. But little progress has been made so far, and it will be difficult to meet that goal.

One of the objectives of this year's summit is to strengthen the political will of the world's governments to fight hunger.

The Internet holds abundant information on the issue, ranging from World Food Program news about food emergencies to proposals for political action suggested by activists and organizations with a presence on the web.

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