Chronic hunger still plagues 870 million people worldwide, the U.N.’s Food and Agricultural Organization said Tuesday.
The FAO’s 2012 report on food insecurity said progress against hunger in the past 20 years was better than previously believed, but that most of the progress was achieved before 2007-08.
East Asia had fared well, but the number of people affected by hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa had risen from 170 million to 234 million people over the period.
“We live in a world of plenty which has enough food to feed everyone. For us, the only acceptable number is zero,” FAO head Jose Graziano da Silva told a press conference as the report was unveiled.
(From news reports)
