The international goal of cutting hunger by half by 2015 appears even more remote after 75 million new people joined the ranks of the famished last year, a United Nations agency said Tuesday.
A United Nations agency has revealed that the international goal of cutting hunger by half by 2015 appears "even more remote" after 75 million new people joined the ranks of the famished last year.
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said that high food prices have reversed the gains made towards achieving the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of reducing the proportion of people suffering from hunger by 2015.
Population Clock (World)
Medindia's World population clock gives you an approximate population of the world. It is dynamically updated based on birth and death rate.
Medindia's World population clock gives you an approximate population of the world. It is dynamically updated based on birth and death rate.
During world food summits held in 1996, 2002 and last June, the international community underscored its desire to reach food security and cut the number of people suffering from chronic hunger in half by 2015.
But given last year's dramatic rise, the FAO said: "The achievement of the World Food Summit goal of halving the number of hungry people is even more remote."
Anthrax - Bacillus - Symptoms - Diagnosis - Treatment - FAQs
Anthrax is caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis and spreads when the anthrax spores are inhaled, ingested, or come into contact with the skin lesion on a host.
Anthrax is caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis and spreads when the anthrax spores are inhaled, ingested, or come into contact with the skin lesion on a host.
Of the 75 million new people who went hungry last year, 41 million were in Asia and the Pacific, 24 million in sub-Saharan Africa, six million in Latin America, and four million in North Africa and the Middle East.
Advertisement
Amoebic Dysentery/Amoebiasis-Causes-Symptoms-Diagnosis-Treatment-Prevention-FAQs
Amoebic dysentery or amoebiasis is an infection of the intestine that causes diarrhoea most frequently along with other causes.
Amoebic dysentery or amoebiasis is an infection of the intestine that causes diarrhoea most frequently along with other causes.
RAS/SK
British Town to Put Pigeons on Pills to Reduce Their Population!
Stamford town councillor has suggested that pigeons should be put on contraceptive pills to cut down their population.
Stamford town councillor has suggested that pigeons should be put on contraceptive pills to cut down their population.
