subject: Global Hunger Decreasing, Still Too High [print this page] The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says that global hungerhas decreased slightly during the past year, despite the economic recession, yet it still remains "unacceptably high."
The FAO estimates that the number of people living with hunger in the world has dropped from over 1 billion to 925 million in the past year. This comes despite increasing food prices of staple crops, such as wheat.
The areas with the worst rates of hunger are Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, with 578 million and 239 millionpeople suffering from hunger in those regions, respectively. According to the FAO, Latin America came in third with 53 million people and the Near East and North Africa had 37 million people suffering from hunger.
Another 19 million people suffer from it in the developing nations.
The FAO notes that the recent fires in Russia will have an adverse effect on wheat and grain prices throughout the world and that the inability of many poor nations to provide adequate protection from economic shocks will exacerbate the on-going hunger "crisis."
However, some regions, like Latin America, have managed to withstand the current crisis better than in times past, pointing to possible signs for fresh hopes and for the possibility that hunger may continue to decrease.
Measuring hunger is a source of debate between several nations, but the FAO's measure of hunger focuses on an inadequate intake of daily calories. The FAO's measure of an adequate number of calories is approximately a minimum of 1,800 calories per day.
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