UN / HUNGER REPORT 2009

The latest UN report on hunger says that the current global economic crisis has triggered a spike in world hunger which has reached the highest level in four decades. Some one billion people are undernourished - more than any time since 1970. FILE

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:06
• Production Date: 14 October 2009
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
• Geographic Subject: UNITED NATIONS STABILIZATION MISSION IN HAITI - MINUSTAH
• MAMS Id: U091014b

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STORY: UN / HUNGER REPORT 2009
TRT: 1.06
SOURCE: UNICEF / MINUSTAH
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LANGUAGE: NATS

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Shotlist

FILE – UNICEF - MARCH 2009, LUBUNGA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

1. Wide shot, child being examined by two doctors
2. Close up, doctors examining child’s stomach
3. Close up, malnourished child’s face

FILE – MINUSTAH - 6 NOVEMBER, 2008 / BAIE D'ORANGE, BELLE ANSE, HAITI

4. Close up, father unveiling face of a dead son
5. Zoom out, coffin being carried out by two men and placed on chairs in front of seated classmates
6. Med shot, top of the coffin in front of three boys
7. Pan, child's feet on the scale to nurse and child
8. Med shot, doctor with a naked, visibly malnourished child
9. Wide shot, same doctor with same child and a mother in front
10. Med shot, MSF coordinator giving nutrition sachets to mothers with children
11. Med shot, mother holding and feeding a child
12. Close up, child eating

FILE – UNICEF - LODWAR, NORTH EAST KENYA, MARCH 2006

13. .Med shot, young emaciated child sitting on hospital bed
14. Close up, child on hospital bed with other mothers and children behind it
15 .Med shot, woman and child on hospital floor eating from bowl

FILE – UNICEF - NOVEMBER 2005, ZINDER, MARADI, NIGER

16. Various shots, women with their babies on their backs waiting to receive food
17 .Various shots, malnourished children at Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) clinic outside Maradi

Storyline

A report issued today by two United Nations agencies says that the
economic turmoil sweeping the globe has lead to a sharp spike in hunger affecting the world’s poorest, uncovering a fragile global food system requiring urgent reform.

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the combination of the food and economic crises have pushed more people into hunger, with the number of hungry expected to top one billion this year.

The agency, along with the World Food Program (WFP) said in their report, “The State of Food Insecurity,” that nearly all of the world’s undernourished live in developing countries.

Even before the onset of the current crises, the number of hungry has been growing slowly and steadily over the past decade, it noted.

Strides in improving access to food were made in the 1980s and early 1990s, thanks to stepped up agricultural investment after the global food crisis of the early 1970s. However, official development assistance (ODA) fell between 1995-1997 and 2004-2006, resulting in surges in the number of undernourished in most regions.

The increase in the number of the world’s hungry in times of both low prices and economic prosperity as well as periods of price spikes and recessions shows how weak the global food security governance system is, according to FAO.