As Children Starve, World Struggles for Solution
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From CNN -- In places like Haiti where chronic hunger and malnutrition are mounting problems, some mothers have to choose which children will be fed and which will die. Food riots erupted worldwide in 2008, from Egypt to India, and even in the United States. 2008 say record harvest years; the problem isn't with the food supply, but rather how that supply is distributed. Other causes for the global hunger crisis include rising oil costs, increased droughts and hurricanes, and depleting sources of raw materials such as water, oil, and viable farmland.
“ "It's horrible. They have to choose among their children," says Wolff, whose nonprofit group was formed to fight childhood malnutrition. "They try to keep them alive by feeding them, but sometimes they make the decision that this one has to go." ”
