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Food insecurity amongst the world's poor
With more than one billion people in the world suffering from food price fluctuations and nutrition concerns, tackling global food scarcity and high food prices is a top item on the agendas of United Nations agencies.
With that goal, the executive boards from the World Food Program, United Nations Development Program, United Nations Population Fund and UNICEF gathered on Friday to discuss ways of ensuring the success of the Millennium Development Goal to eradicate hunger in an atmosphere of ill-sustained agricultural production, widespread malnutrition, and a deepening world financial crisis.
In opening remarks to the joint session, UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman praised the interagency collaboration established in July 2008 to provide a comprehensive framework for action (CFA) to cope with food increases that are leading to accumulated long-term vulnerability among the worlds poor.
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