世界各地长期忍受饥饿的人口15年来首次下降到10亿以下。联合国粮农组织星期二将饥饿人口的下降归功于经济条件改善，食品价格下降。但是这个机构也指出，仍然有9亿2千5百万人在挨饿，他们中的大部分生活在发展中国家。
联合国粮农组织总干事迪乌夫说，每6秒钟就有一个孩子死于营养不良。他说，这是一个“绝对不能接受”的数字。营养不良情况的减少主要集中在亚洲。今年，亚洲的饥饿人口减少了8千万。在撒哈拉以南的非洲地区，饥饿人口的减少幅度要小一些，大约减少了1千2百万。联合国粮农组织说，在撒哈拉以南的非洲地区，每三个人中就有一人今年会继续食不果腹。
The number of people suffering from chronic hunger around the world has dropped for the first time in 15 years, to below 1 billion.The Food and Agriculture Organization on Tuesday credited improved economic conditions and lower food prices for the drop.But the organization noted that there are still some 925 million people who are hungry, most of whom live in developing countries.
FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf said one child continues to die every six seconds due to malnourishment, a number that he said was “absolutely unacceptable”.The reduction in malnourishment was mostly concentrated in Asia, with 80 million fewer people going hungry this year. In sub-Saharan Africa, the drop was smaller — about 12 million.The FAO said one out of three people in sub-Saharan Africa would continue to be undernourished this year.