PERU fishing with guts to report…
The proportion of people suffering from malnutrition in the country fell from 31.6% to 8.7% over the past two decades, according to The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014, released today by FAO, IFAD and WFP.
So, having already reached simultaneously the hunger target of the first Millennium Development Goals and the World Food Summit, Peru is one of the 8 countries in the region with the fastest progress in fighting hunger, along with Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama.
The total number of people living with hunger in Peru has also dropped from 7 million in 1990-92 to 2.7 million in 2012, which means that in just over two decades, four million men women and children passed the underfeeding.
In the region, the results are also positive: in the same period, 31.5 million people overcome hunger, from 68.5 million in 1990-92 to 37 million in 2012.
The report was published jointly by FAO, IFAD and WFP, whose head Jose Graziano da Silva, Kanayo F. Nwanze and Ertharin Cousin from Rome specially highlighted the achievements of the region in the foreword: "Latin America and the Caribbean is the region that has shown the most progress in reducing hunger, reducing its prevalence in nearly two-thirds since the beginning of 1990. As a whole, has already achieved the goal of hunger MDG is very close to reaching the WFS target. "
Latin America and the Caribbean lead the hunger reduction
Latin America and the Caribbean is the region with the largest number of countries that have achieved the Millennium Development Goal on hunger.
"Advancements give reason for optimism, but it is important to note that there are still significant differences between the progress of countries and also within countries, since there's like geographic sectors like rural areas and social sectors and
The hunger
The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014 summarizes as follows the situation of hunger in the world: about 805 million people in the world-each nine-, hungry. The results confirm a positive trend that has been reducing the number of hungry people worldwide in more than 100 million in the last decade, and more than 200 million since 1990-92.
In the present scenario, 65% of people suffering from hunger are in Asia, 28% in Africa, 4.6% in LAC, 2% in developed regions and 0.2% in Oceania.
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Hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean, SOFI 2014, Raul Benitez, FAO Regional Representative
Highlights of progress in Latin America and the Caribbean in the fight against hunger: Graziano da Silva, Director-General of FAO:
