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Sunday, July 27, 2025

UN: Pace of hunger reduction in region improves

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SAN­TI­A­GO–The UN's Food and Agri­cul­ture Or­gan­i­sa­tion says some 47 mil­lion peo­ple suf­fer from hunger in Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean. That is 3 mil­lion less than in the 2008-2010 pe­ri­od.FAO said yes­ter­day that slow eco­nom­ic growth and high lev­els of in­equal­i­ty are still im­ped­ing hunger re­duc­tion in the re­gion.But it has made strides in the re­duc­tion of pover­ty and FAO says 16 coun­tries have reached a tar­get to re­duce by half the num­ber of peo­ple that suf­fer hunger.

The re­gion pro­duces more food than re­quired for its pop­u­la­tion and FAO says none of the na­tions should lack the min­i­mum caloric quan­ti­ties need­ed per per­son.Still many go hun­gry even as about 23 per cent of adults and sev­en per cent of chil­dren in the pre-school lev­el are over­weight.

AP


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