"State of Food Insecurity in the World" Report Released - 820 Million People Undernourished

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.

Comments

[Scott Hughes]

At least they admit that it's hunger. In the U.S. reports, the U.S. government has stopped using the word hunger and now calls hungry people "food insecure"!

[Amanda Miller]

820 million people undernourished is crazy! We are suppose to be working to decrease hunger but instead hunger is increasing. Hunger is not only increasing but increasing at a rate of four million a year. World Food Summit promised to reduce the number of undernourished people by half by 2015. It is now 2011 and there were more hunger people in the developing countries than there were in 1996. We urgently need to do something to put a stop to this. There should not be this many undernourished people. The numbers should be decreasing not increasing!

[Soraya]

Though there are many small and large fighting to end hunger it seems that it will never end. Maybe because we aren't truly solving the problem most of the time, but merely giving a temporary solution. If we some how teach all these people to sustain themselves in the enviornment their in and stop major companies from taking all of their homes, the problem would actually be solved.

[ClubPenguin]

There should not be this many undernourished people.

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