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Pakistan’s Food Affordability Threatens 77 Million, WFP Says

April 23rd, 2008 Aimon · 2 Comments

Source: Bloomberg
By Jason Gale
Almost half the population of Pakistan, the world’s seventh-most-populous nation, faces difficulty gaining access to affordable food because of the soaring cost of cereals, a World Food Program official said.
The Rome-based United Nations agency increased its estimate of the number of so-called food insecure people in Pakistan to 77 million from 60 […]

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