"With climate change and health crises rightfully receiving international attention, the time has come to focus on hunger as a top priority. WHO regards hunger and malnutrition as the gravest threat to public health, and climate change threatens to further destabilise already fragile food-production systems."
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The Lancet Volume 371, Issue 9608, Pages 180 - 181, (19 January 2008)
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