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A homeless child eats food on a street in Kuala Lumpur. A report by Oxfam and the Institute for Development has identified a global trend towards fast food. Photograph: Mohd Rasfan/AFP/Getty Images

World Food Day – Zero Hunger

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Monday, October 16th, 2017
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October 16 is observed as the World Food Day in honour of the founding of the Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN in 1945. The theme for this year is “Change the future of migration. Invest in food security and rural development”. Check out some stats on WFD:

Across the Lake Chad Basin, some 7 million people struggling with food insecurity need asistance.
Across the Lake Chad Basin, some 7 million people struggling with food insecurity need assistance.

11.3% of the world’s population is hungry. That’s roughly 805 million people who go undernourished on a daily basis, consuming less than the recommended 2,100 calories a day

In 2010, an estimated 7.6 million children — more than 20,000 a day — died. Poor nutrition plays a role in at least half of these deaths.

0 countries that have achieved greatest success in reducing the total number of hungry people in proportion to their national population are Armenia, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Cuba, Georgia, Ghana, Kuwait, Saint Vincent and Grenadines, Thailand and Venezuela.

Nearly 98% of worldwide hunger exists in underdeveloped countries. Almost 1 in every 15 children in developing countries dies before the age of 5, most of them from hunger related causes.

Globally, 155 million children under five years of age still suffer from stunting

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