FAO Food & Agriculture Organization [to 30 May 2015]

FAO Food & Agriculture Organization [to 30 May 2015]
http://www.fao.org/news/archive/news-by-date/2015/en/

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Latin America and the Caribbean: World’s first region to reach both international hunger goals
Latin America and the Caribbean has taken a huge step towards the total eradication of hunger by reducing both the percentage and total number of undernourished people to less than half.
28-05-2015

Asia-Pacific region achieves Millennium Development Goal to reduce hunger by half by 2015
The Asia-Pacific region has achieved the Millennium Development Goal (MDG-1c) by reducing the proportion of people suffering from hunger by half by 2015.
28-05-2015

As South Sudan conflict escalates, 4.6 million people at risk of severe food insecurity
The IPC estimates for April, indicate that most of the people affected – 3 million at Crisis level and 800 000 at the Emergency level – are located in the three states of the country’s northeastern Greater Upper Nile region hardest hit by the fighting. Many others are from the western part of the Greater Bahr el Ghazal region where conditions have deteriorated as a result of a spillover from the conflict.
28-05-2015

Boosting food security in cities through better markets, reduced food waste
Recognizing the growing challenge of feeding the world’s cities and the importance of efficient urban markets, FAO and the World Union of Wholesale Markets (WUWM) is entering into a partnership to promote sustainability and inclusiveness in the wholesale sector, including developing “best practices” for reducing food waste.
28-05-2015

World hunger falls to under 800 million, eradication is next goal
The number of hungry people in the world has dropped to 795 million – 216 million fewer than in 1990-92 – or around one person out of every nine, according to the latest edition of the annual UN hunger report, The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2015.
27-05-2015