| UN FAO’s latest report pegs the number of hungry people in the world at 868 million, against a previous UN projection of 1 billion. This change is the result of adoption of a new calculation methodology. Jose Graziano da Silva, director general commented on this by saying that this constituted a decrease in the number of hungry in the world, sparking hope that hunger and nutrition MDGs could in fact be achieved, but that the progress was still too slow, with 1 in 8 people in the world still hungry. Read more here, here, |
