Tuesday 16 September 2014

World hunger easing but 1 in 9 people undernourished: food agencies

Diawara holds her daughter Diarra, as she recovers from malnutrition, at nutrition center run by Accion contra el Hambre at Selibaby's hospital By Isla Binnie ROME (Reuters) - The number of hungry people in the world has fallen sharply over the past decade but 805 million, or one in nine of the global population, still do not have enough to eat, three U.N. food and agriculture agencies said on Tuesday. The number of chronically undernourished people dropped by more than 100 million, equivalent to a country the size of the Philippines, according to a report by the United Nations food agency (FAO), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and World Food Programme (WFP). ...




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