One in eight people around the world go hungry, says U.N. report

By Agnieszka Flak MILAN (Reuters) - One in eight people around the world is chronically undernourished, the United Nations' food agencies said on Tuesday, warning world leaders that some regions would fail in halving the number of hungry by 2015. In their latest report on food insecurity, the U.N. agencies estimated that 842 million people were suffering chronic hunger in 2011-13, or 12 percent of the world's population, down 17 percent from 1990-92. The new figure was lower than the last estimate of 868 million in 2010-12 and 1. ...



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