São Paulo – The number of malnourished people in Brazil declined by two million in the last three years, according to a report released by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (Ifad) and the World Food Programme (WFP).
The FAO claims that the malnourished population in the country has gone from 15 million, from 2007 to 2009, to 13 million from 2010 to 2012. From 1990 to 1992, there were 23 million malnourished people in the country.
Brazil and Peru had Latin America’s highest malnourishment reduction rates in the last three years. In Brazil, the rate of malnourished people dropped from 14.9% to 6.9%, meaning that the country has achieved the first Millennium Development Goal of the United Nations.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
