The World - News from Sept. 27, 1988
More than 100 million Africans, or one in four, do not get enough food to fuel an active working life, and the situation is getting worse, a World Bank report said. The study defines as “food insecure” those who do not get the minimum of 2,200 calories a day that humans require to be able to work. The study, released at a conference in West Berlin, lists Ethiopia, buffeted by wars and drought, as having the largest number of “food insecure”--14.7 million.
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