UN: Number of hungry people declines

[cory777]

Source: Associated Press

ROME – The number of chronically hungry people in the world dipped considerably below the 1 billion mark — the first drop in 15 years — thanks partly to a fall in food prices after spikes that sparked rioting a few years ago, U.N. agencies said Tuesday.

Still, an estimated 925 million people are undernourished worldwide, and the latest figures don't reflect the repercussions from the massive flooding in Pakistan.

The Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization's report suggested some progress in the battle to end hunger, but stressed the world is far from achieving the U.N. promoted Millennium Development Goal of halving the proportion of undernourished people from 20 percent in 1990-92 to 10 percent in 2015.

The report estimated there are 98 million fewer chronically hungry people than in 2009, when the figure just topped 1 billion.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100914/ap_on_he_me/eu_un_hunger

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[DJ13]

1. thanks partly to a fall in food prices

Well, in recent weeks the commodity manipulators have been pumping grain, sugar, cocoa prices up to multi year (in a couple of cases multi decade) highs, so sadly the numbers of hungry will probably spike back up in the near future.

[Matariki]

2. In other words - more than 1 in 7 people on the planet are chronically hungry.

That is sorrowful.

[flvegan]

3. 925 million. Think about that.

[pampango]

4. Headed in the right direction but a long, long way to go. n/t