An Afghan boy eats corn on a roadside in Kabul, Afghanistan, June 22. Pope Benedict XVI said July 1 that persistent world hunger was a “tragedy” driven by selfish and profit-driven economic models, whose first victims are millions of children deprived of life or good health. (CNS photo/Mohammad Ismail, Reuters) (July 1, 2011) See POPE-FAO July 1, 2011.