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FAO Launches “One Billion Hungry” Project

TEHRAN,  4 August 2010 (UNIC)—In order to urge people to work together to end hunger and also politicians around the world to make international hunger reduction goals their priority, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has launched a global initiative entitled “1billion hungry project”

The Main Objective of the 1 Billion Hungry Project Campaign is to Sign the Petition to End Hunger: http://www.1billionhungry.org/. The target is One Million Signatures by Mid of October 2010.

Of the around one billion hungry people, 642 million live in Asia and the Pacific, 265 million in Sub-Saharan Africa, 53 million in Latin America and the Caribbean, 42 million in the Near East and North Africa and 15 million people in developed countries.

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