By IANS,
Geneva : The UN Children’s Fund expressed concern Tuesday for the impact of food crisis on minors worldwide, as 3.50 million of them die of malnutrition every year.
UNICEF termed “extremely dangerous” the situation of world food production and its ever increasing prices as they are used to produce biofuels.
This situation left families in developing countries without access to wheat, rice or corn, all of which triggered unrest in over a dozen countries, with nearly one hundred deaths so far.
A UNICEF report released in Geneva notes that the crisis is also threatening with reducing family budgets, prompting children to leave school and look for a job.
World Food Program Spokeswoman Christine Berthiaume denounced that in rich countries, a family allocates only 15 percent of its budget to buy food, while this rate may reach 75 percent in poor countries.