{"id":216,"date":"2010-09-22T14:47:45","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T14:47:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-09-22T14:47:45","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T14:47:45","slug":"hunger-costs-poor-countries-450-billion-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centernet.pcusa.org\/food-faith\/hunger-costs-poor-countries-450-billion-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunger costs poor countries $450 billion a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A new report by ActionAid reveals that hunger could be costing poor nations $450 billion a year \u2013 more than ten times the amount of aid needed to halve hunger by 2015 in order to meet Millennium Development Goal One (MDG 1). ActionAid\u2019s report scores donor and developing nations on their efforts to fight hunger and is released as world leaders prepare to meet next week at the UN in New York to discuss progress on the Millennium Development Goals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><small>via <a href=\"http:\/\/actionaidusa.org\/what\/food_rights\/hunger_costs_450_billion_a_year\/\">actionaidusa.org<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>Seems illogical, but the costs of poverty are far greater than what it would cost to end poverty!<\/p>\n<p>Here is an excerpt: \u201cMalawi and Ghana are shining examples of how supporting small scale farmers is the key to halving hunger,\u201d said ActionAid\u2019s Africa Hunger Free Coordinator Henry Malumo. \u201cWith only five years left and a billion people hungry, it\u2019s critical that the world follow their example.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report by ActionAid reveals that hunger could be costing poor nations $450 billion a year \u2013 more than ten times the amount of aid needed to halve hunger by 2015 in order to meet Millennium Development Goal One&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.5 (Yoast SEO v23.5) - 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