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    800 Million People are Hunger Victims in the World

    May 28, 2015

    Rome: The victims of hunger in the entire world went down in number to under the 800 million people, exactly 795 (216 million people less than in the 1990-1992 period) which represents almost a person out of each nine, said the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization Wednesday.

    The latest annual report said the state of food insecurity in the world in 2015 reached the goal of the Objectives of the Millennium in 72 of 129 analyzed countries, to reduce the prevalence in 50 percent.

     

    The text added the developed regions of the world have not reached the objective by a very small margin, while 29 nations fufilled the most ambitious purpose of the World Food Summit in 1996 of reducing the absolute amount of people on food insecurity in 50 percent for 2015.

     

    In developing regions, the prevalence of malnutrition, which measures the percentage of people who can not eat enough food for an active and healthy-life fell to 12.9 percent of the population, compared to 23.3 percent of a quarter of a century, says the report.

     

    According to FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva, have almost reached the goal on hunger shows that scourge hunger can be actually eliminated, so he proposed to turn the current generation into the generation of the Zero Hunger, the :Prensa Latina News Agency reported.

     

    That goal should be integrated in all public interventions and placed in the center of the new agenda for sustainable development to be established this year, he said.

     

    'If you really want to create a world free of poverty and hunger, we must give priority to invest in rural areas of developing countries where most of the poorest and hungry people are living," said International Food Development Agency (IFAD) president Kanayo F. Nwanze, who considered urgent to transform rural communities and provide decent jobs with decent conditions and opportunities, investing for nations to grow in balance, and the three billion people living in rural areas can develop their potential.

     

    According to the WFP Executive Director, Ertharin Cousin, men, women and children need nutritious food every day to have the possibility of a free and prosperous future.

     

    'A healthy body and mind are essential for individual and economic growth, and that growth should be inclusive to convert hunger a thing of the past, "he said.

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