AFRO-NETS> The State of Food Insecurity in the World

[Claudio Schuftan <aviva@netnam.vn>]

The State of Food Insecurity in the World
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Counting the hungry: latest estimates
 
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - FAO
Rome, Italy, 2003
 
Available online as Adobe PDF file (40 pp. 377 kb) at: 
ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/006/j0083e/j0083e00.pdf
 
Worldwide, FAO estimates that 842 million people were undernour-
ished in 1999-2001, the most recent years for which figures are 
available. This includes 10 million in industrialized countries, 
34 million in countries in transition and 798 million in develop-
ing countries.
 
Regionally, only Latin America and the Caribbean had a decline in 
the number of hungry since the mid-1990s.
 
Only 19 countries, including China, succeeded in reducing the 
number of undernourished throughout the 1990s, says the report. 
"In these successful countries, the total number of hungry people 
fell by over 80 million."
 
At the other end of the scale are 26 countries where the number 
of undernourished people increased by 60 million during the same 
period, including countries in transition, where those suffering 
from hunger climbed from 25 million in the mid-1990s to 34 mil-
lion at the turn of the century.

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