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Even before the recent food price spikes, an estimated billion people were suffering from chronic hunger, while another two billion were experiencing malnutrition, bringing the total number of food-insecure people to around three billion, or almost half the world’s population.

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They exclude people that died as a consequence of civil war, from hunger or disease, for example.

I went on a three-day hunger strike.

We see deforestation; we see the desert spreading; we see massive hunger; we see disease and we see population growth in areas where there are more people living on a certain piece of land than the land can possibly support, and they're too poor to buy food from elsewhere.

We saw the food riots in 2008, after what I call the silent tsunami of hunger swept the globe when food prices doubled overnight.

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