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To reduce world hunger, governments need to think beyond making food cheap

  • Written by Michael Fakhri, Associate Professor of International Law, University of Oregon
imageIraqis buy produce at a street market in Baghdad during the COVID-19 pandemic, July 14, 2020.Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP via Getty Images

According to a new United Nations report, global rates of hunger and malnutrition are on the rise. The report estimates that in 2019, 690 million people – 8.9% of the world’s population – were...

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