The number of people who go to bed hungry every night somewhere in our world has reached 1 billion — one in six of the Earth's population, according to a new report by the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation. The international goal of slashing in half the number of hungry people by 2015 now seems far from attainable.
But it need not be so.
Undernourishment fell across the world throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. But then in 1995 things went into reverse. Today there are more hungry children, women, and men than at any time since 1970. Last year 46 million extra people fell below the U.N. poverty benchmark of having less than $1.25 to live on every day.
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