UN FOOD AGENCY SAYS 38 COUNTRIES HAVE MET INTERNATIONAL TARGET ON HUNGER ERADICATION

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UN FOOD AGENCY SAYS 38 COUNTRIES HAVE MET INTERNATIONAL TARGET ON
HUNGER ERADICATIONNew York, Jun 12 2013 12:00PMThirty-eight countries
have already met internationally-set hunger eradication targets set
for 2015 to halve the percentage of hungry people, the United Nations
food agency today said.

"These countries are leading the way to a better future. They are
proof that with strong political will, coordination and cooperation,
it is possible to achieve rapid and lasting reductions in hunger," UN
Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) Director-General José
Graziano da Silva
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Amid the 1,000 days of action for the eight anti-poverty targets known
as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), 38 countries have met part
of the first MDG which calls on Member States to halve by 2015 the
proportion of people who suffer from hunger.

Of those, 18 countries also reached the more stringent World Food
Summit Goal of reducing by half the absolute number of undernourished
people between 1990-1992 and 2010-2012. These comprise Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Cuba, Djibouti, Georgia, Ghana, Guyana, Kuwait,
Kyrgyzstan, Nicaragua, Peru, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa,
Sao Tome and Principe, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Venezuela and Vietnam.

The countries that met the anti-hunger aspect of the first MDG include
Algeria; Angola; Bangladesh; Benin; Brazil; Cambodia; Cameroon; Chile;
Dominican Republic; Fiji; Honduras; Indonesia; Jordan; Malawi;
Maldives; Niger; Nigeria; Panama; Togo; Uruguay.

Mr. Graziano da Silva urged all countries to keep up the momentum,
aiming for the complete eradication of hunger, in keeping with the
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's Zero Hunger Challenge.

First proposed at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development
(Rio+20) in Brazil last June, the challenge aims for a future where
every individual has adequate nutrition.

Its five objectives are to make sure that everyone in the world has
access to enough nutritious food all year long; to end childhood
stunting; to build sustainable food systems; to double the
productivity and income of smallholder farmers, especially women; and
to prevent food from being lost or wasted.

"Globally, hunger has declined over the past decade, but 870 million
people are still undernourished, and millions of others suffer the
consequences of vitamin and mineral deficiencies, including child
stunting," said Mr. Graziano da Silva.

"We need to keep up our efforts, until everyone can live healthy,
productive lives."

While some 870 million people were still hungry in 2010-2012, this is
just a fraction of the billions of people whose health, well-being and
lives are blighted by malnutrition, FAO said in its flagship annual
report launched earlier this month.

Two billion people suffer from one or more micronutrient deficiencies,
while 1.4 billion are overweight, of whom 500 million are obese,
according to "The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA)".

It adds that 26 per cent of all children under five are stunted and 31
per cent suffer from Vitamin A deficiency.

On June 16, FAO said it will honour the 38 countries that reached the
anti-hunger targets in a high-level ceremony at its headquarters in
Rome.

The first MDG also includes targets for halving the proportion of
people whose daily income is less than $1.25, and achieving full and
productive employment and decent work for all.Jun 12 2013 12:00PM
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