São Paulo – The number of people suffering from hunger is declining and could reach zero. According to the report “The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2015”, released this Wednesday (27th) by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the estimation is that 794.6 million people will be victims of hunger from 2014 to 2016. It’s the lowest number of people since the first data was released, between 1990 and 1992, when there were 1.01 billion people in hunger.
In a statement, FAO reported that 72 of the 129 countries surveyed reached the target of the Millennium Development Goal, which foresees the efforts of all countries to improve in the social areas, such as the end of hunger until 2015, gender equality and high-quality basic education, in a total of eight targets. FAO’s director general, José Graziano, pointed out that the data from the report represents the “near complete” achievement of the targets and show that it’s possible to reach them.
In a Wednesday (27th) press release, the Brazilian Ministry of Social Development and Fight Against Hunger (MDS, in the Portuguese acronym), says that between 2012 and 2014, Brazil was the country that had the sharpest decline of undernourished among the most populated countries surveyed by FAO. In this period, there were 820.7 million people suffering from hunger in the world, according to FAO. According to MDS, the number of undernourished people dropped 82.1% in Brazil. In Indonesia, the second sharpest decline among the countries, the reduction stood at 49.3%. In all Latin America, the drop was of 43.1%.
*Translated by Sérgio Kakitani
