A total of 243 million Africans have been classified as
hungry people among the 815 million victims globally, reports NaijaAgroNet.
The United Nations (UN) disclosed this in its latest hunger
and food security key numbers made available to NaijaAgroNet, which has overall
number at 815 million, while Asia continent has 520 million, over 100 per cent
of African quota.
Also, NaijaAgroNet gathered that in the top three continents
in the hungriest people in the world included Latin America and the Caribbean
with 42 million.
The global hungry population as shared in percentage,
NaijaAgroNet gathered showed that Asia has 11.7 per cent; Africa has 20 per
cent with eastern Africa lone scoring 33.9 per cent, while Latin America and
the Caribbean got 6.6 per cent.
NaijaAgroNet further gathered this was the first time that
UNICEF and WHO join FAO, IFAD and WFP in preparing The State of Food Security
and Nutrition in the World report. This change reflects the SDG agenda's
broader view on hunger and all forms of malnutrition.
The UN Decade of Action on Nutrition, established by the
General Assembly, is lending focus to this effort by motivating governments to
set goals and invest in measures to address the multiple dimensions of
malnutrition.
Isaac Oyimah/GEE
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