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In developing / underdevelope countries, more than 800 million people are short of food supply and 1.3 billion individuals living less than USD 1 a day. The deep impact of plant disease in food security can be envisaged in a classical fearful example, the Irish Potato Famine happened in 18th century. This incident had killed about a million people and caused a massive emigration, in which severely change the demography of this country today.
The follwing info obtained from latest BBC News:-
The latest estimates from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) show that another 40 million people have been pushed into hunger in 2008 as a result of higher food prices.
This brings the overall number of undernourished people in the world to 963 million, compared to 923 million in 2007.
The FAO warned that the ongoing financial and economic crisis could tip even more people into hunger and poverty.
"World food prices have dropped since early 2008, but lower prices have not ended the food crisis in many poor countries," said FAO assistant director-general Hafez Ghanem at the launch of the agency's State of Food Insecurity in the World 2008 report.
Adapted from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7795652.stm
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