id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5608 Hunger - Wikipedia .html text/html 8008 776 67 FAO is the world's agricultural knowledge agency, providing policy and technical assistance to developing countries to promote food security, nutrition and sustainable agricultural production, particularly in rural areas. They put this ahead of other priorities, like the fight against malaria and AIDS.[40] Also in May 2012, U.S. President Barack Obama launched a "new alliance for food security and nutrition"—a broad partnership between private sector, governmental and civil society actors—that aimed to "...achieve sustained and inclusive agricultural growth and raise 50 million people out of poverty over the next 10 years."[28][38][41][42] The UK's prime minister David Cameron held a hunger summit on 12 August, the last day of the 2012 Summer Olympics.[38] Despite the hardship caused by the 2007–2009 financial crisis and global increases in food prices that occurred around the same time, the UN's global statistics show it was followed by close to year on year reductions in the numbers suffering from hunger around the world. ^ "Hunger and food security United Nations Sustainable Development". ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5608.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5608.txt