Food security in Colombia

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Jan 20 2010 (IPS) - 53 million people in Latin America facing hunger, Colombia’s problem is considered moderate by the Global Hunger Index’s findings of 2009. However, 12 of every 100 families are not in a position to feed their children and 17 percent of children in rural Colombian suffer malnutrition, according to Colombia’s Social Welfare Ministry