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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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