Hunger explained?
Topical issue of the week: Digital revolution and food
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Last update: October 2020
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The ambition of this site, created in June 2013, is to try and inform on the food issue and to debunk myths on hunger (More on myths on hunger...) so that the honest citizens of the XXIst century that we are, are able to better understand the world around us and act in order to change it and make a reality of the utopia of a world without hunger. [read more]
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Acknowledgements
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