GLOBAL HUNGER `UNACCEPTABLY HIGH`, UN REPORT SAYS
Baku, September 14 (AZERTAC). Global hunger has fallen this year but remains "unacceptably high", a report from the UN`s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has said.
The FAO estimates there are 925 million undernourished people in 2010, compared with 1.02 billion in 2009.
But it warned that the fight to reduce hunger would face additional obstacles if food prices continue to rise.
A separate report from Action Aid estimates that hunger costs developing countries $450bn (£292m) a year.
The report says that 90% of these costs stem from lost productivity as a result of malnutrition, while the other 10% is due to higher health system costs.
Action Aid says this is more than 10 times the amount of funding needed to halve hunger by 2015. This is one of the eight United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
The MDGs represent a global commitment by members of the UN to reduce poverty and improve lives by 2015.
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