0 Question: how many people in the world have no access to food? Asked by emilyjane to Emma on 15 Jun 2010 in Categories: Your Research. This question was also asked by lauraa3.
Emma Pilgrim answered on 15 Jun 2010:
Hi
The current estimate is that 1.02 billion people are hungry. MOre info is here
http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/20568/icode/
emilyjane commented on 20 Jun 2010:
wow thats a lot of people
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andrewleitch commented on 21 Jun 2010:
On the flip-side it would seem that a similar number of people have too much/too frequent access to food
‘Currently more than 1 billion adults are overweight – and at least 300 million of them are clinically obese.’ http://www.who.int/dietphysicalactivity/publications/facts/obesity/en/
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emilyjane commented on :
wow thats a lot of people
andrewleitch commented on :
On the flip-side it would seem that a similar number of people have too much/too frequent access to food
‘Currently more than 1 billion adults are overweight – and at least 300 million of them are clinically obese.’ http://www.who.int/dietphysicalactivity/publications/facts/obesity/en/