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ROME, June 19 (UPI) -- The world's sluggish economy and rising food prices mean more than 1 billion people will go hungry every day this year, the United Nations said Friday.
"The silent hunger crisis -- affecting one sixth of all of humanity -- poses a serious risk for world peace and security," said Jacques Diouf, director general of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.
"We urgently need to forge a broad consensus on the total and rapid eradication of hunger in the world," Diouf said in a release from Rome.
Poor countries must be given the development, economic and policy tools needed to boost agricultural production, Diouf said, noting healthy agriculture is a prerequisite to overall economic growth.
The number of hungry people has been slowly, yet steadily, rising for the last decade with the number of hungry people expected to grow overall this year by 11 percent, U.N. officials said.
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