ABSTRACT
In October 2012, The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2012 (SOFI) jointly published with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP), estimates of chronic undernourishment based on an improved methodology and data for the last two decades (FAO 2012). This report stated that nearly 870 million people, or one in eight, were suffering from chronic undernourishment in 2010-2012. The vast majority of the hungry, 852 million live in developing countries-around 15 percent of their population-while 16 million people are undernourished in developed countries. Latin America and the Caribbean had 49 million hungry in 2010-2012, while the prevalence of undernourishment dipped was 8.3 percent (FAO 2012).
