Asia-Pacific makes strides in curbing hunger – FAO

The Asia-Pacific region has achieved the Millennium Development Goals’ hunger target of halving the proportion of undernourished people in 2015 but 490 million people in the region still suffer from chronic hunger, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

While the report confirmed that the Asia and Pacific region has made some great strides in food security, achieving the largest reduction in the absolute number of undernourished people (236 million) and almost all countries now having adequate food supplies to meet people’s average dietary needs, the region is sadly still home to almost 62 percent of the world’s undernourished.