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Number of Hungry People Around the World Drops Below 800 Million, Reports UN Agency

by Vishnuprasad on May 28, 2015 at 10:25 PM
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Number of Hungry People Around the World Drops Below 800 Million, Reports UN Agency

The number of hungry people around the world has dropped below 800 million for the first time since the UN started counting, the Food and Agriculture Organization said in an annual report on Wednesday.

The Rome-based agency said there are 795 million people around the world suffering from hunger, 216 million fewer than in 1990-92, and that the world was on track to potentially eradicate the problem within the lifetime of today's young people.

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"The near-achievement of the MDG hunger targets shows us that we can indeed eliminate the scourge of hunger in our lifetime," said FAO director general Jose Graziano da Silva. "We must be the zero hunger generation."

In the developing world, the prevalence of undernourishment has declined to 12.9 percent of the population from 23.3 percent a quarter of a century ago, the report found. A total of 72 out of 129 countries monitored by the FAO have achieved the Millennium Development Goal target of halving the prevalence of undernourishment by this year and developing regions as a whole only missed the objective by a narrow margin.
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The improvement in food security was all the more striking given the world's population has grown by 1.9 billion since 1990, meaning many more mouths to feed, the FAO noted.

But while the situation had significantly improved over the past two decades, progress in recent years had been hampered by natural disasters, extreme weather events, political instability and civil conflicts, the report said.



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