Hunger and malnutrition are killing nearly six million children each year - a figure that roughly equals the entire pre-school population of a large country such as Japan, FAO said in a new edition of its annual hunger report, The State of Food Insecurity in the World, 2005.
The Chronic Poverty Report 2004-05 is about people living in chronic
poverty - people who remain poor for much or all of their lives, many
of whom will pass on their poverty to their children and all too often
die easily preventable deaths.