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1st June 2011, 18:57
The price of some food staples could double in the next 20 years because of rising demand and climate change, a British-based charity has warned.
In a report released on Tuesday, Oxfam said world hunger was already increasing due to rising food price inflation and oil price hikes, as well as environmental changes such as droughts and floods.
"The food system is pretty well bust in the world," Barbara Stocking, the Oxfam chief executive, said.
"All the signs are that the number of people going hungry is going up."
The charity said 925 million people - one out of seven - are hungry, and the figure is likely to surpass one billion by the end of this year.
"If you think we have a crisis here, in 30 years it will be a cataclysm if the status quo remains," Gonzalo Fanjul, a policy adviser for Oxfam, said.
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http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2011/05/2011531143949529754.html
In a report released on Tuesday, Oxfam said world hunger was already increasing due to rising food price inflation and oil price hikes, as well as environmental changes such as droughts and floods.
"The food system is pretty well bust in the world," Barbara Stocking, the Oxfam chief executive, said.
"All the signs are that the number of people going hungry is going up."
The charity said 925 million people - one out of seven - are hungry, and the figure is likely to surpass one billion by the end of this year.
"If you think we have a crisis here, in 30 years it will be a cataclysm if the status quo remains," Gonzalo Fanjul, a policy adviser for Oxfam, said.
continued:
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2011/05/2011531143949529754.html