Food First News and Views Winter 2009
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Two alarming documents on hunger and the food crisis were released in November. The USDA reports an alarming increase in food insecurity—fully one in seven Americans do not get enough food throughout the year. And a declaration from the World Summit on Food Security in Rome notes that the world is now hungrier than ever before. The parallels between global and national hunger are staggering.
The increases in food insecurity in the U.S. and abroad have tracked one another almost perfectly. Last year the number of hungry people worldwide increased by 15%, to over 1 billion while U.S. food insecurity increased by 13% with nearly 50 million people without enough food.
