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Press conference to present new hunger report - FAO headquarters, 9 October

Includes new figures on the number of hungry people in the world, analysis of role of economic growth in reducing chronic hunger
On Tuesday 9 October at 10:00h Rome-time, the three Rome-based UN food agencies – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD),  and the UN World Food Program (WFP)  – will publish the 2012 edition of the annual The State of Food Insecurity in the World (SOFI) report.

This year’s edition of SOFI presents new estimates of the number and proportion of hungry people in the world, reflecting updated data and several key improvements in the methodology used by FAO to measure hunger.

The new SOFI and its main findings will be presented at a news conference at FAO’s headquarters, which will be webcast live. The report will also be available online from 10:00h at http://www.fao.org/publications/sofi/en/



WHO:       José Graziano da Silva - Director-General, FAO
                 Carlos Seré - Chief Development Strategist, IFAD
                 Valerie Guarnieri , Head of Programme, WFP
                 Jomo Kwame Sundaram - Assistant-Director General for Economic and Social Development, FAO

WHAT:     News conference to present 2012 edition of the UN’s
annual world hunger report

WHEN:     Tuesday 9 October 2012, 10:00h CET

WHERE:   Sheikh Zayed Media Centre, FAO headquarters
                 Rome, Italy | Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, corner with Viale Aventino. Metro stop Circo Massimo.




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Webcast: http://www.fao.org/webcast/

Twitter hashtags: #UNFAO #SOFI2012

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