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ITEM: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon "said he would put together a special task force to help deal with the problem and called on the international community to help," reported the Associated Press on April 21. "He said the U.N. World Food Program plans to raise $750 million per year to help feed 73 million people in 80 countries. 'We need a real world and not the world of economic theories,' Ban said. 'I will work on this right now with a sense of urgency.' Ban said the Millennium Development Goals--adopted at a U.N. summit in 2000 to cut extreme poverty in half by 2015--were not being met."
ITEM: "Farmers and food executives appealed fruitlessly ...
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