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A woman sells dried fish in a market on World Food Day in Lagos, Nigeria, Oct. 16, 2012. The United Nation's Food and Agricultural Organization said hunger is declining in Asia and Latin America but is rising in Africa. One in eight people around the world goes to bed hungry every night. Sunday Alamba/AP
In this photo taken Sept. 14, 2012, a World Food Program (WFP) airplane flies over a line of women and children waiting for a health screening, in Yida camp, South Sudan. Newly arrived refugees say renewed fighting between rebels and Sudan's military is likely to send thousands more, filling the camp with refugees of war and hunger. Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin/AP
A girl eats her meal next to a relative in Terrabona town, north Nicaragua, October 11, 2012. Oswaldo Rivas/Reuters
Women shop in a supermarket in Lisbon on October 18, 2012. Next year's draft budget includes the steepest tax rise in Portugal's democratic history as the country strives to meet the goals set under its 78-billion-euro ($102 billion) bailout from the European Union and International Monetary Fund. Jose Manuel Ribeiro/Reuters
People hold sacks of potatoes during a food distribution organized by Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party at Agios Panteleimonas Square in Athens on September 14, 2012. Yorgos Karahalis/Reuters
People eat lunch at the Souq al-Melh market in Sanaa's Old City district in Yemen, October 16, 2012. Mohamed al-Sayaghi/Reuters
A woman poses with a locust between her teeth at a discovery lunch in Brussels on Sept. 20, 2012. Organizers of the event, which included cookery classes, want to draw attention to insects as a source of nutrition. Francois Lenoir/Reuters
Workers load packs of rice as food aid for flood-stricken North Koreans onto a ship at a port in Gunsan, South Korea, Oct. 22, 2010. Im Chung/Yonhap/Reuters
A Syrian boy, who fled his home with his family due to fighting between government forces and rebels, holds a plate with food to eat at a refugee camp near the Turkish border, Azaz, Syria, Oct. 7, 2012. Manu Brabo/AP
A farmer harvests rice at a paddy field outside Hanoi, Vietnam, Oct. 11, 2012. Thailand's rice intervention scheme is distorting trade around Southeast Asia, attracting rice smuggled from neighboring countries into Thai government stockpiles, but genuine business remains slack and Thai prices have fallen this week. Kham/Reuters
A woman works in a rice mill in Aliade community in the Gwer local government area of the central state of Benue, Nigeria, Oct. 4, 2012. Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters
This photo taken Oct. 10, 2012 shows participants of a field trip in the Wheat for Food Security in Africa conference examining wheat in a plastic bag in Debre Zeit, Ethiopia. The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center says that although maize has long been considered the most important cereal crop in sub-Saharan Africa, demand for wheat is growing faster than for any other food crop. Kirubel Tadesse Ayetenfisu/AP
A man selling potatoes waits for customers during an autumn fair at a street market in Minsk, Belarus, Oct. 13, 2012. Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters
A woman sits on board a boat as she transports food baskets at the river Buriganga in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Oct. 16, 2012. Andrew Biraj/Reuters
A child eats a hamburger outside a McDonald's fast food restaurant in downtown Milan, Italy, Oct. 16, 2012. The restaurant gave out meals for free before closing down after 20 years. Stefano Rellandini/Reuters
Members of the French non-government organization (NGO) Action Contre la Faim (Action Against Hunger) take part in a protest, featuring mock crime scenes, denouncing malnutrition in the world, at the Place Saint Sulpice in Paris October 15, 2012. Jacky Naegelen/Reuters
A child residing in the shanty area of al-Dweiqa receives bread in Cairo on Oct. 4, 2012. Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters
Women cook on a stove made out of mud at a women development program center funded by World Food Program (WFP) at Shagra village in North Darfur on Oct. 18, 2012, during a visit by a delegation of Ambassadors of European Union to Sudan. Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters
Employees of Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority collect samples of vegetables for testing at a supermarket in Prague, Czech Republic, June 14, 2011. David W Cerny/Reuters
A volunteer pushes a cart among the bags of food aid being distributed to earthquake survivors in Concepcion, Chile, March 4, 2010. Victor Ruiz Caballero/Reuters
A boy sits in a tree as people line up to receive food aid from the Red Cross, Nov. 9, 2008 in Kibati just north of Goma in eastern Congo. Karel Prinsloo/AP
A Palestinian boy sits behind bags of flour donated by various aid agencies as part of their food assistance programs, in the Shati refugee camp, Gaza City, Oct. 6, 2012. Many people in the coastal sliver of territory wedged between Egypt and Israel are deeply poor and rely on donated food aid to get by. Arabic reads, 'remember God.' Hatem Moussa/AP
An Indian schoolgirl eats a free mid-day meal at a government run school on World Food Day in Bangalore, India, Oct. 16, 2012. Blaming flawed methodology and poor data, the United Nations says its 2009 headline-grabbing announcement that 1 billion people in the world were hungry was off-target and that the number is actually more like 870 million. Aijaz Rahi/AP
A vendor holds a ten yuan note as a customer pays for her vegetables at a market in Shanghai, China, Nov. 9, 2011. Aly Song/Reuters
A child walks away carrying a bowl of food after receiving it at a food distribution center run by the Somali Relief, Rehabilitation and Development Organization (SORRDO) for those displaced by the 2011 famine or by conflict, in the Hodan area of Mogadishu, Somalia, Jan. 19, 2012. A large amount of food sent by the UN to the Somali capital during last year's famine never reached the starving people it was intended for, an Associated Press investigation has found. Ben Curtis/AP
A girl holds up her evening meal to be photographed on her way back to her family's tent at an assistance center for flood victims in Nowshera in Pakistan's northwest Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province August 25, 2010. Tim Wimborne/Reuters
Haitians receive free meals from a local restaurant in Port-au-Prince on January 23, 2010 after a devastating earthquake. Eliana Aponte/Reuters
A seafood vendor serves a customer at a small food market in central Beijing on Oct. 16, 2012. Weeks before China unveils its next generation of leaders, a new survey has found that growing numbers of its people worry about corruption, inequality, and food safety, while ties with the United States are increasingly viewed with suspicion. David Gray/Reuters
An Afghan woman eats bread along a street in Herat province, Afghanistan, early in the morning on October 16, 2012. Mohammad Shoiab/Reuters
Boxes of food are stacked on palettes at the Kansas Food Bank in Wichita, Kan., Sept, 14, 2012. The Food Bank announced a new program called the 'Bob Box' that's sponsored by former Kansas Senator Bob Dole. The program's purpose is to help end hunger for senior citizens in Kansas. Travis Heying/The Wichita Eagle/AP
A farmer sifts rice at a paddy in the town of Baliuag, Bulacan province north of Manila, Philippines, April 13, 2008. The Philippines, one of the country's most affected by soaring rice prices, called for a meeting of Asian ministers to discuss a global rush for the grain that has heightened anxiety about food security. Cheryl Ravelo/Reuters
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A report by the World Bank found that easing fees, rules, and border restrictions could help Africa's food crisis, and could also lead to economic growth.
Africa could avoid food shortages if it reduces the tangled web of rules, fees and high costs strangling regional food trade and by putting large swathes of uncultivated land to productive use, a World Bank report said on Wednesday.
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