Peru has made a great progress in the fight against hunger in Latin America by taking out more than four million people from food shortage over the last two decades, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
In a report released Wednesday, FAO lauds the Peruvian government for having achieved both the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving the proportion of hungry people and the World Food Summit (WFS) target of halving the absolute number of hungry people by 2015.
According to the new figures in the annual State of Food Insecurity in the World, Latin American countries have made the biggest progress globally against hunger, including Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama.
In this regard, the Rome-based world body's agency stressed in the 2014's report on the subject on world hunger that the proportion of undernourished people in Peru has decreased from 31.6 percent in 1990–92 to 8.7 percent in 2012–14.
"The number of chronically undernourished people in the Andean nation has fallen sharply from 7 million to 2.7 million in the period under review," the report’s fourth edition carried out by the International Fund for agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP) unveiled.
All in all, 63 countries have fulfilled the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of halving the proportion of their undernourished population, and another six countries are on the way to doing so by the 2015 deadline.
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Published: 9/18/2014