ROME: One out of every eight people in the world is chronically undernourished, the United Nations' food agencies said yesterday.
In a report on food insecurity, the agencies said 868 million people were hungry in 2010-2012, about 12.5% of the world's population, down from around one billion in 1990-1992.
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