Number of world hungry drops to one in eight people: UN

The number of world hungry has dropped to one in eight people, but undernourishment remains a significant problem in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia, the UN’s food agency said Tuesday. At the global level, 842 million people – 12 percent of the world’s population – did not have enough food for an active and healthy life in the period 2011 to 2013, down from 868 million reported for the period 2010 to 2012. Read details in Tribune