联合国粮食及农业组织的官员说，尽管全球有丰富的食品供应而且食品价格比较低，但世界饥饿率仍然太高。
有关官员星期五在罗马的粮农组织总部纪念“世界粮食日”时说，全世界大约有9.25亿人生活在长期饥饿和营养不良的状态之下，粮食产量需要增产70%才能满足他们的需求。粮农组织总干事迪乌夫说，这种不平衡是由于世界对发展中国家的农业投资不足。
卢旺达总统卡加梅星期五在罗马发表讲话，他呼吁政府加倍努力，在2015年之前把世界饥饿人口减少一半。最近一份来自粮农组织的报告说，22个国家正面临着长期饥饿的危机。
Officials with the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization say world hunger remains too high, despite abundant global food supplies and lower food prices.
Marking World Food Day Friday at FAO headquarters in Rome, officials said some 925 million people around the world live in a state of chronic hunger and malnutrition, and that food production will have to increase by 70 percent to meet their needs.FAO Director Jacques Diouf said the imbalance was the result of the world under investing in agriculture in developing countries.
Rwandan President Paul Kagame, speaking in Rome on Friday, called on governments to redouble their efforts to halve world hunger by 2015.A recent report by the FAO says 22 countries are facing long-standing hunger crises.