Hunger and the global food crisis are but among hundreds maybe thousands of policy initiatives competing for time and space in the world agenda today just as man-made and natural disasters are competing for attention of policy makers.
The risk is that the global economic crisis and the knee-jerk desire to pull inward will prove the conventional wisdom right that the world's 963 million hungry will get hungrier as the financial crisis works its way through the international system just as outbreak of disease and negative effects of climate change continue to wreck havocs across the continents.
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