UN: Famine receding

UN: Famine receding

UN: Famine receding
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The world is coming to target hunger in the world by 2015 to reduce by half.

Here's the good news. What people do not eat fast declining as a percentage and in absolute terms, says the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

Since 1990. Constantly hungry people fell to 209 million 805 million. The starvation of the population decreased from 18.7% to 11.3%. In developing countries, these people have fallen by nearly half, from 23.4% to 13.5%.

"This is proof that we can win the war against hunger," said the report, released on September 16.

In places like Latin America and China rapid progress. But in Asia are 526 million chronically hungry people and starvation relevant quarter of the African people. Economic growth is likely to defeat hunger is the key there, said Jomo Kwame Sundaram of the FAO.