One in eight in world still hungry: UN

One in eight people worldwide still suffers from chronic hunger, the UN's food agency said yesterday, describing the figure as "unacceptable" and warning that the fight against hunger was slowing down.
"With almost 870 million people chronically undernourished in 2010-2012, the number of hungry people in the world remains unacceptably high," the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) said in its 2012 report on food insecurity.
The vast majority of the world's hungry -- 852 million -- live in developing countries, where hunger affects 14.9 percent of the population. Most sufferers live in South and East Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, the report said.