As we prepare to feast, let's pay the customary moment's attention, and maybe a somewhat longer period of serious thought, to those who won't be eating enough.
How many? By the most recent estimate of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, there are now 870 million people living in "chronic undernourishment." Almost half of them are children, for whom hunger is deadly: A third of all child deaths are caused directly by malnourishment. Some 10 million people, mostly children, died of hunger in 2012.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/the-new-famine-is-a-crisis-of-undersupply/article6647722/