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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.
The destabilizing effects of hunger are known throughout human history.
This is not a negotiable thing, hunger.
We know how to fix hunger.
In fact, what we know now is that every 10 seconds we lose a child to hunger.
I'd like to talk about some of the things I've seen on the front lines of hunger, some of the things I've learned in bringing my economic and trade knowledge and my experience in the private sector.
And these types of technologies, I see, have the potential to transform the face of hunger and nutrition, malnutrition out on the front lines.
We know that there's boom and bust cycles of hunger.
Cameroon, northern Cameroon, boom and bust cycles of hunger every year for decades.
Well two years ago, we decided, let's transform the model of fighting hunger, and instead of giving out the food aid, we put it into food banks.
Well I'd like to talk about Brazil, because I've taken a journey to Brazil over the past couple of years, when I read that Brazil was defeating hunger faster than any nation on Earth right now.
And this zero hunger program costs .5 percent of GDP and has lifted many millions of people out of hunger and poverty.
It is transforming the face of hunger in Brazil, and it's at scale, and it's creating opportunities.
WFP's been able to leave 30 nations because they have transformed the face of hunger in their nations.
Not only that, transforming hunger is an opportunity, but I think we have to change our mindsets.
Now I make a daily pilgrimage to visit a particular weeping willow by the Seine, and I hunger for the green fields in the bush outside Bukavu.
When a crime is committed, our hunger for swift retribution has fed a police culture bent on finding culprits fast, often without adequate resources to conduct thorough investigations or strict scrutiny of those investigations.
You have hunger; you have sex; you have power; and you have the urge for acquisitiveness.
So in 1965, I went to what was called the worst Bihar famine in India, and I saw starvation, death, people dying of hunger, for the first time.
What do we know about the country and the people that we pretend to protect, about the villages where the only one medicine to kill the pain and to stop the hunger is opium?
And in a sort of parallel universe, we're also seeing that hunger is on the rise.
How in Sandra's family, widespread hunger and poverty existed as recently as Sandra's parents' generation and therefore impacts Sandra today.
And you might say, "Surely, Rueben, if you took even just the slightest step back, the cycles of hunger and eating, waking and sleeping, laughing and crying would emerge as pattern."
Now, I'm sure you all keep a copy of the goals under your pillow, or by the bedside table, but just in case you don't, and your memory needs some jogging, the deal agreed then goes like this: developing countries promised to at least halve extreme poverty, hunger and deaths from disease, alongside some other targets, by 2015, and developed nations promised to help them get that done by dropping debts, increasing smart aid, and trade reform.
The fact is, we have an enormous buffer in rich countries between ourselves and hunger.
Because despair, civil war, hunger and famine, although they're part and parcel of our African reality, they are not the only reality.
I would go on a hunger strike before I let them take away Google Book Search from me.
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