The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014

Author:
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher:
The United Nations
Publication Date:
16 September 2014
Tags:
Africa, Aid and Assistance, Food and Agriculture, International Organizations and Africa, Nutrition

More than 800 million people - or one in every nine on the planet - suffer from hunger, but a new joint UN agency report released on September 16th stated that the Millennium Development Goal of halving the proportion of undernourished people by 2015 is still within reach.

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