World hunger falls, but number of undernourished remains ‘unacceptably high’—joint UN report

by UN News Centre

16 September 2014 – More than 800 million people – or one in every nine on the planet – suffer from hunger, but a new joint UN agency report released today stated that the Millennium Development Goal of halving the proportion of undernourished people by 2015 is still within reach.

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