'Alarming' numbers go hungry in 25 countries: report [... including Cambodia]
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Mon, Oct 11, 2010
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Poverty, conflict and political instability caused some billion people to go hungry this year, many of them children in Africa and Asia, according to the Global Hunger Index report released Monday.
Out of 122 countries included in the annual report, 25 have "alarming" levels of hunger and four countries in Africa have "extremely alarming" hunger, said the report by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe.
The results did not surprise researchers, who pointed to data by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations that found the overall number of hungry people surpassed one billion in 2009, even though it decreased to 925 million in 2010.
Out of 122 countries included in the annual report, 25 have "alarming" levels of hunger and four countries in Africa have "extremely alarming" hunger, said the report by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe.
The results did not surprise researchers, who pointed to data by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations that found the overall number of hungry people surpassed one billion in 2009, even though it decreased to 925 million in 2010.
