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Daily Mail, ROME (AP), 11 September 2018  
The number of hungry people in the world is growing again, in large part due to climate change that is wreaking havoc on crop production in much of the developing world, the United Nations said Tuesday  


Major U.N. agencies said in an annual report Tuesday that the number of hungry people facing chronic food deprivation increased to 821 million in 2017 from 804 million in 2016, reversing recent downward trends. South America and Africa showed the worst increase.  


“This message today should frighten the world,” said David Beasley, head of the World Food Program.

  
Beasley, a Trump administration nominee, acknowledged that climate change as well as conflict were fueling the rise in malnutrition globally.  


“Climate impact is real,” he said, though he demurred when asked whether the cause was man-made.  


Analysis in the report found that climate variability - extreme droughts and floods - are already undermining production of wheat, rice and maize in tropical and temperate regions, and that the trend is expected to worsen as temperatures increase and become more extreme.  


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