More than 820 million people worldwide were under nourished in 2018, the third consecutive year of slight increase after decades of decline.
This is said according to a report presented on Monday by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to newsmen, United Nations officials and stakeholders at IFAD’s headquarters.
The 239-page `’The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World’ report, released annually, is a comprehensive look at the state of hunger worldwide.
The report is produced by IFAD along with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Food Program (WFP), both based in Rome, as well as the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
According to the report, the number of hungry people in the world is increasing more or less in step with the global population growth.
This means the figure of 820 million hungry people in 2018 represents a slight increase compared to 2017, but in relative terms, the number of undernourished people in the world has held steady at just under 11 per cent.
