On October 30, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released its annual report The State of Food Insecurity in the World (SOFI).
According to the SOFI report, there are an estimated 820 million undernourished people in developing countries. At the launch of the SOFI report in Rome, FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf stated, "Far from decreasing, the number of hungry people in the world is currently increasing – at the rate of four million a year."
Ten years after the 1996 World Food Summit, which promised to reduce the number of undernourished people by half by 2015, there were more hungry people in the developing countries today than there were in 1996. Meeting the goals of the World Food Summit would require reducing the number of undernourished by 31 million every year until 2015.
On a positive note, the SOFI report noted that the proportion of people suffering from hunger in developing countries has gone down.
You can read the SOFI report, and news from UN and FAO regarding the release of this report.
