{"id":1239,"date":"2008-12-10T11:32:48","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T10:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2008-12-10T11:32:48","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T10:32:48","slug":"nearly-a-billion-starving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1239","title":{"rendered":"Nearly a billion starving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fact that you&#8217;re reading this blog posting means that you have access to the Internet and probably own a computer which by definition puts you in a favourable economic category in world terms, even if your standard of living and perhaps your employment and housing prospects are threatened by the current global financial crisis.<br \/>\nSpare a thought though for those all around the world who are literally starving. According to the UN&#8217;s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), although food prices have more than halved from their historic peaks a few months ago, the cost of basic staples  is still high 28% higher on average than two years ago which has led to an increase in the number of people unable to afford to eat enough calories to lead a normal, active life.<br \/>\nThe FAO&#8217;s hunger report, &#8220;The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2008&#8221;, found that there are now estimated to be 963 million people, 14% of the world&#8217;s population, going hungry, up by 40 million from last year. The majority of the hungry live in the developing world, 65% of them in just seven countries: India, China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan and Ethiopia.<br \/>\nMore information on the FAO report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/news\/story\/en\/item\/8836\/icode\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fact that you&#8217;re reading this blog posting means that you have access to the Internet and probably own a computer which by definition puts you in a favourable economic category in world terms, even if your standard of living and perhaps your employment and housing prospects are threatened by the current global financial crisis. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}