ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The number of hungry people worldwide has declined to 795 million, a decrease of 167 million in the past decade, three U.N. agencies announced on Wednesday.
Despite population growth, fewer people are hungry today than at anytime in the last two decades, including 10 million fewer than last year, according to the "State of Food Insecurity in the World 2015" report from the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
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