AlQa'dah 21, 1435, Sep 16, 2014, SPA -- Fewer people worldwide have suffered from hunger in the past decade, but one in nine are still undernourished, three U.N. food and agriculture agencies said Tuesday. The number of undernourished people dropped by more than 100 million, according to a report by the U.N. Food Agency (FAO), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and World Food Programme (WFP). The United Nations aimed to improve nutrition and decrease the number of hungry people in the world by half from 1990 to 2015. Brazil, Indonesia, and Malawi met that goal, but Haiti saw an increase of 4.4 million hungry people from 1990 to 1992, and a 5.3 million increase from 2012-2014. "We cannot celebrate yet because we must reach 805 million people without enough food for a healthy and productive life," WFP Executive Director Ertharin Cousin said in Rome. The Ebola outbreak in West Africa and the crises in Iraq and Syria could mean that people who once had enough food could lose reliable resources "in just a matter of weeks," Cousin said. The three agencies urged for more efforts, especially in sub-Saharan Africa and southern and western Asia, to reduce the number of hungry people in developing countries to 11.7 from 13.5 by the end of 2015.
