By Food and Agricultural Organization
An estimated 820 million people did not have enough to eat in 2018, up from 811 million in the previous year, which is the third year of increase in a row. This underscores the immense challenge of achieving the Sustainable Development Goal of Zero Hunger by 2030, says a new edition of the annual The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report released today.
The pace of progress in halving the number of
children who are stunted and in reducing the number of babies born with low
birth weight is too slow, which also puts the SDG 2 nutrition targets further
out of reach, according to the
report. At the same time, adding to
these challenges, overweight and obesity continue to increase in all regions,
particularly among school-age children and adults. Read more>>