| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - After a small decline between 2007 and 2008, world hunger rose sharply as the impact of the economic crisis hit, rising from 915 million in 2008 to an estimated 1.02 billion this year. [See graph] While disasters, such as floods or droughts, cause temporary food shortages, these emergencies accounted for only 8 percent of the world???s hungry population, the WFP said.
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