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Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy
John McCarthy (jmc@Steam.stanford.edu) wrote:
: The absolute number of malnourished people is down slightly - from 800
: million to 700 million. The objective is to bring it down to 400
: million by 2015.
: This week an expected 100 heads of state and
: government gather in Rome for the U.N. Food and Agriculture
: Organisation's (FAO) World Food Summit to pledge to reduce
: the number of under-nourished to 400 million by 2015.
:
: They will agree that the world, with some 800
: million people lacking enough food to meet their basic
: nutritional needs, must act to increase production
: significantly.
: The source on which I read it was down slightly is not in accordance
: with the above extract from a news story about the Rome food meeting
: going on at present.
What was the source?
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