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The number of poor in the world increases by 44 million in just six months

- The World Bank warned that rising food prices has reached "dangerous levels" and threatens tens of millions of people with few resources

The persistent rise in food that is being made in international markets since last June has avocado extreme poverty to 44 million people, more or less the equivalent of English population (47 million), according to a report today, the World Bank in a report prepared for the upcoming summit of the G-20 in Paris.

The agency points out that food prices are fast approaching the record levels reached in summer 2008 because of increased demand from China, India and, in general, from emerging Asia. Nor have helped to moderate the upward pressure on the poor harvests of 2010 or the desire of some governments to fill the pantry at the cost of encouraging speculation. This rise in food is also one of the reasons for the protests that sparked the crisis in Tunisia and the contagion effect in the streets of Yemen, Algeria, Jordan and Egypt.

The conclusion of the price increase, according to World Bank President, Robert Zoellick, is that the cost of food is becoming "dangerous levels" and threatening tens of millions of people around the world. The most vulnerable, he notes, are those who spend over half their income for food. Institution's data reveal that there are nearly a billion hungry people worldwide, over 60% are women. And a third of child deaths worldwide are attributed to malnutrition. According to the scales

accepted by the World Bank and other organizations like the UN, to be under the extreme poverty line of living with an income insufficient to meet basic food needs. Internationally, está fijado en menos de 1,25 dólares al día en paridad de poder de compra, ya que no es lo mismo disponer de este dinero en países como India que en otros más pobres más pobres como Burundi. Además, la organización Food Price Watch advierte de que la carestía de los alimentos está relacionada directamente con un alza de las personas -especialmente los niños- que sufren maltrunición severa ya que, ante la falta de recursos, o bien se ven obligados a comprar menos alimentos o adquirir aquellos de peor calidad.

Según el índice que elabora el Banco Mundial, los precios de los alimentos subieron de media un 15% entre el pasado octubre y enero. Gracias a esta evolución, ahora este índice is 29% above its level a year ago and only 3% below the peak reached in 2008, but other agencies such as FAO say they have already achieved.

Among cereals, the report said the World Bank, international wheat prices are the ones who have risen to double its cost between June and January. The corn has gone up by 73%, but a crucial food for most of the world's poor, rice, has risen at rates lower. Sugar and edible oils have also been restated to force underlines the text.

also continues the World Bank and other essential nutrients in the diet of the inhabitants of certain plants in countries like India or vegetables in some African States have urged also complicating the livelihoods of millions of people.

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