War, disasters cause an extra 100 million hungry
![Natural disasters, including earthquakes in China, have combined with war and a rise in food prices to push millions more into food deficit. [Reuters]](http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200806/r259743_1078882.jpg "Natural disasters, including earthquakes in China, have combined with war and a rise in food prices to push millions more into food deficit. [Reuters]")
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Natural disasters, including earthquakes in China, have combined with war and a rise in food prices to push millions more into food deficit. [Reuters]
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The United Nations Childrens Fund says conflicts and natural disasters last year plunged an extra 100 million people into hunger.
UNICEF's 2009 Humanitarian Action Report says Africa is in the most dire situation, and communities in Burma and East Timor are also finding it harder to cope.
The head of UNICEF Australia, Carolyn Hardy, says more people are in need this year because of the recent sharp rise in food prices and because of climate change.
"In 2008 there was a devastating hurricane season effecting the Carribean, catastrophic earthquakes in China and Pakistan, the worst ever cyclone disaster in Myanmar's history, floods and landslides in south africa, droughts in the horn of Africa - children in all these situations are the most vulnerable," said Carolyn Hardy.
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