The head of the World Food Program, Josette Sheeran, said a "silent tsunami" threatened to plunge more than 100 million people on every continent into hunger. As the global food-price crisis worsens, the World Food Program has begun cutting the provision of school meals to some of the world's poorest children,.
"This is the new face of hunger; the millions of people who were not in the urgent hunger category six months ago but now are," she said, adding the cutbacks reflected "heartbreaking decisions" and were the biggest challenges of the program in 45 years.
[Excerpt of an article by Jeremy Lovell, SMH]
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