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This is the short edition of Morales,

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Hello and welcome to Morales on the BBC World Service.

I'm Ruth Alexander. This week we examine a populist statistic

used by celebrities and charity campaigners.

There is enough food for everyone in the world.

Every 15 seconds a child dies of hunger.

It's a figure that's being quoted to promote

the enough food for everyone if campaign.

There is enough food for everyone.

But not everyone has enough food.

Sometimes it falls upon a generation.

I'm not giving it.

You can be that great generation.

I'm not giving it.

It's time to tackle world hunger.

But then mid campaign, the organisers say

they've realised the situation's even worse than they've been saying.

One child dies because of hunger, not every 15 seconds,

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