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Venecia Lonis, 4, who suffers from malnutrition, hangs from a strap used to weigh her at the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Port-au-Prince,
Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008

Open quoteThis sad reality should not be acceptable at the dawn of the 21st Century.Close quote

  • JACQUES DIOUF,
  • head of the Food and Agriculture Organization, on the 40 million people pushed into chronic hunger by the rise in food prices in 2008
Photo: RAMON ESPINOSA / AP | Source: BBC