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Dear EarthTalk: I understand a recent government report concluded that our global food system is in deep trouble, that roughly two billion people are hungry or undernourished while another billion are over consuming to the point of obesity. (EarthTalk: Questions & Answers About Our Environment. A Weekly Column)

Despite pressure, companies are pro-biotech.(benefits can help undernourished people, globally)(Brief Article) (Feedstuffs)

Dear EarthTalk: I understand a recent government report concluded that our global food system is in deep trouble, that roughly two billion people are hungry or undernourished while another billion are over consuming to the point of obesity. What's going on?-- Ellie Francoeur, Baton Rouge, LA (Earth Talk)

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Inequality and welfare by food expenditure components.(GROWTH, POVERTY AND INEQUALITY) (Pakistan Development Review)

Kenyan school children have multiple micronutrient deficiencies, but increased plasma vitamin B-12 is the only detectable micronutrient response to meat or milk supplementation1,2 (The Journal of Nutrition)

Food security status among cocoa growing households in Ondo and Kwara States of Nigeria: a discriminant analysis approach.(Report) (African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development)

The Facts about World Hunger (Freeman)

Number of Hungry in the World Tops 1 Billion (National Catholic Reporter)

Research from University of London Broadens Understanding of Obesity. (Food Weekly News)