As many as 13 countries around the world were acknowledged by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to have made great strides in combating hunger among their people, an achievement of one of the major goals of the international goals of millennium in this matter before its end-of-2015 deadline. In a statement, the FAO said the countries are Brazil, Cameron, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Iran, Kiribati, Malaysia, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, The Philippines and Uruguay. However, there are still some 805 million persons suffering from acute malnutrition throughout the world, the FAO Director General José Da Silva said in a ceremony held at the organization's headquarters in Rome today.
