World Food Day – Achieving Food Security in Times of Crisis
Friday, October 16th, 2009Montreal, 15 October 2009 – According to the Food and Agriculture Organization’s annual hunger report, The State of Food Insecurity, produced this year in collaboration with the World Food Programme (WFP), nearly all of the world’s undernourished live in developing countries. In Asia and the Pacific, an estimated 642 million people are suffering from chronic hunger; in Sub-Saharan Africa 265 million; in Latin America and the Caribbean 53 million; in the Near East and North Africa 42 million; and in developed countries 15 million. This means that currently 1.17 billion people are undernourished; in other words, one sixth of humanity is suffering from hunger.
