UN: Number of hungry people declines

Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - 16:21 in Mathematics & Economics

(AP) -- The number of chronically hungry people in the world dipped considerably below the 1 billion mark - the first drop in 15 years - thanks partly to a fall in food prices after spikes that sparked rioting a few years ago, U.N. agencies said Tuesday.

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