BY TPN/ LUSA, IN GENERAL · 11-10-2012 10:10:00 · 0 COMMENTS
Brazil, Angola and Mozambique all managed to cut back on the level of malnutrition over the period between 1990 and 2012, a United Nations report on world food security reported this week.
The report finds that some one in eight persons continue to go hungry, a total of 868 million persons worldwide, and 2.5 million children die of malnutrition on an annual basis.
Furthermore, whilst the majority of those afflicted are in the developing world, where some 15 percent of the population experience hunger, there are also some 16 million people affected in supposedly developed countries.
However, there has been progress with Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) members among those cutting hunger in their populations by the highest rates.
For example, in Angola, some 64 percent of the population were classified as hungry between 1990-1992 with that rate falling away to 27 percent by 2012, even though still representing in the region of five million people.
Brazil also achieved a similar rate of progress even if starting from a better position.
Hunger in the South American country dropped from 15 percent to seven percent over the same two periods nevertheless meaning that some 13 million people still go hungry with the UN specifically mentioning the food security programme in Belo Horizonte, Brazil’s third largest city, as a pioneering example.
Progress has been more modest in Mozambique where nine million people continue to face malnutrition related issues representing almost 40 percent of the population in 2012 but down from the 57 percent affected between 1990-1992.
This 30 percent plus reduction in the numbers experiencing hunger in Mozambique becomes a particularly impressive improvement given that the United Nations reported Africa to be the only continent that saw an overall increase in malnutrition over the last 22-years, rising from 175 to 239 million citizens.
Furthermore, whilst the majority of those afflicted are in the developing world, where some 15 percent of the population experience hunger, there are also some 16 million people affected in supposedly developed countries.
However, there has been progress with Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) members among those cutting hunger in their populations by the highest rates.
For example, in Angola, some 64 percent of the population were classified as hungry between 1990-1992 with that rate falling away to 27 percent by 2012, even though still representing in the region of five million people.
Brazil also achieved a similar rate of progress even if starting from a better position.
Hunger in the South American country dropped from 15 percent to seven percent over the same two periods nevertheless meaning that some 13 million people still go hungry with the UN specifically mentioning the food security programme in Belo Horizonte, Brazil’s third largest city, as a pioneering example.
Progress has been more modest in Mozambique where nine million people continue to face malnutrition related issues representing almost 40 percent of the population in 2012 but down from the 57 percent affected between 1990-1992.
This 30 percent plus reduction in the numbers experiencing hunger in Mozambique becomes a particularly impressive improvement given that the United Nations reported Africa to be the only continent that saw an overall increase in malnutrition over the last 22-years, rising from 175 to 239 million citizens.
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