Abuja — The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), has projected $30 billion a year for agricultural investment in developing countries to lessen human suffering. This is against the backdrop of an estimated 105 million people to go hungry this year, across the world.
A statement on this year's World Food Day monitored on Ghana News on Friday said there are now 1.02 billion malnourished people today, and such a level of investment, was needed to achieve the 1996 World Food Summit goal of reducing the number of hungry people by half, by 2015.
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