Eine Recherche von Ruth Alexander (BBC):
…“There’s a real temptation to use those kinds of statistics because they really do grab the headlines - you can’t ignore that because it’s such a horrifying image,” says Jane Howard, from the WFP. But, she says, it is “a bit misleading”. The WFP itself once used to claim that a child died of hunger every six seconds, but stopped using this slogan around 2008. The numbers can change from year to year, Howard points out, depending on the latest research, “and it gets very confusing because the old figures end up lying around on the internet”.And more importantly, she argues, “the science is actually saying something quite different”. So what is the science saying?…
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