850m go to bed hungry every night, says UN

DESPITE international efforts to reduce poverty, hunger is on the rise again after falling steadily during the first half of the 1990s, according to a report by the UN food agency.

Nearly 850 million people go to bed hungry every night, the vast majority in Africa and Asia, and the number of undernourished people in the developing world is climbing at a rate of almost five million a year, it said.

“The State of Food Insecurity in the World,” an annual report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, paints a grim picture of a failing global campaign against hunger.