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UN announces program to help hunger hot spotsA UN agency rolled out a $ 214 million programTuesday to help 16 needy places hit hard by high prices for foodand oil, amid a crisis already making it hard for aid groups toprovide enough food for the world's hungry.The World Food Program said almost 1 billion poorpeople around the world are struggling to survive amid the higherprices. The agency is trying to reach those in critical need ofassistance in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean.Food prices are not abating, and the world's mostvulnerable have exhausted their coping strategies, said JosetteSheeran, the agency's executive director. Our action plan istargeted and customized to help the most vulnerable meet theirurgent needs.The plan will provide assistance to groups such aspregnant women, undernourished children and people living inurban areas affected most by the food crisis.The Rome-based agency also hopes to cuttransportationcosts and help support farmers in countries where emergencyfood can be bought locally.But the agency already faces obstacles in procuringfood, particularly when trying to buy supplies locally,spokeswoman Brenda Barton said.At the markets we have been buying food it has becomejust too expensive, Barton told The Associated Press bytelephone. And she added: a lot of markets just don't have anyfood to buy.Internet: (adapted).Based on the text above, it can be deduced that

it is difficult to control the starvation the world is facing.