Food Security 2013: Asia report has been launched!

31 January 2014

In recent decades the Asia Pacific region has achieved remarkable results in economic growth and in reducing poverty and hunger but it has come at a cost to the environment and resulted in an unsustainable use of natural resources. Although Asia’s undernourishment rate has fallen from 34 per cent and is anticipated to be at 16 per cent in 2015, with almost one in seven people still suffering chronic hunger, the region is home to almost two-thirds of the world’s chronically hungry population.