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State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World
July 18 , 2019
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- The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and other UN agencies including the World Health Organization have released a report called “State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World”.
- The number of people going hungry without food has risen for the third year running to more than 820 million.
- Africa and Asia account for more than nine out of ten of the world’s stunted children, at 39.5% and 54.9% respectively.
- India’s undernourished population has dropped from 253.9 million in 2004-06 to 194.4 million in 2016-18.
- India’s poverty reduction rate was 48.9 % in 1987 to 21.2 % in 2011 to 13.4 % in 2015.
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