Efforts to End Hunger Are Faltering, U.N. Says
From Times Wire Reports
Seven years after the target was set, the world is far short of cutting in half the number of hungry people by 2015, a new study by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization warned.
“The number of hungry people is expected to decline from around 800 million today to about 440 million in 2030,” the Rome-based group said. “The target of the ... World Food Summit in 1996, to reduce the number of hungry by half by 2015, will not even be met by 2030.”
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