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Access To Food Must Be Considered In Talks Focused On Global Financial Crisis, WEF Participants Say
Business and political leaders meeting in Davos, Switzerland, at the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Thursday agreed that the focus on the global financial crisis "won't matter unless people have one basic thing: Enough food to eat," the Associated Press reports. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) "estimates there are at least 925 million undernourished people in the world -- almost one in seven," the AP notes. FAO Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva said, "The problem is not the supply side. ... The problem is the access -- they don't have the money to buy it or they don't have the water and land they need if they are subsistence farmers," according to the news service (Heilprin, 1/26).
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