One in eight people suffer from malnutrition In a world where
technology has advanced to a point where I can instantly have a
face-to-face conversation via online video with a friend in
Tokyo, nearly 870 million people, or one in eight, still suffer
from malnutrition, according to a new UN report. While worldwide
hunger declined from 1990 to 2007, progress was slowed by the
global economic crisis. Over the last few years, numerous and
record-breaking extreme weather events have also taken tolls on
food production. Currently, food prices hover just below crisis
levels. "We find it entirely unacceptable that more than 100
million children under five are underweight," the heads of the
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), International Fund for
Agricultural Development (IFAD), and the World Food Programme
(WFP) write in a forward to the report, State of Food Insecurity
in the World 2012, adding that such children "are unable to
realize their full human and socio-economic potential, and that
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