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Some pr ogress fighting hunger
Despite some progress, the situation remains unacceptable


In 2010, for the first time in fifteen years has reversed the trend: 98 million individuals are
rose above the threshold of 1,800 calories per day, FAO said with its technical language, typical of international agencies.

Hunger, in short, has dropped: in the world suffer from the 9.6% fewer people than last year. In presenting the report Sofi 2010, however, the Director-General Jacques Diouf has left little room for optimism: "With a child dies every six seconds for problems related to malnutrition, hunger remains a scandal and tragedy more vast proportions in the world, "he said. " This is absolutely unacceptable."

Looking at the figures for recent years, the good news of the FAO is resized. It is true that the number of hungry people fell for the first time in 15 years. But it is also true that he had surged from 2006 to 2009. The number of hungry people by 873 million of 2006 rose to 1.02 billion in 2009, the highest level ever reached. Blame the food crisis first and then the financial crisis, which hit the most vulnerable people, especially in Africa, making them fall in the vicious circle of poverty and hunger. Now the new data of FAO is an improvement, but by the same UN agency, is due to the growing economies of China and India more that targeted policies.

Sofi 2010 According to the report, the region remains the most undernourished Asia with 578 million individuals. But sub-Saharan Africa is the region with the highest proportion of hungry people: 30%, with 239 million people. Within the continent, then, there are different situations: in the 2005-2007 biennium Congo, Mali, Ghana and Nigeria had already reached the first MDG (eradicating extreme poverty and hunger), and countries like Ethiopia are close to doing so. But in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the proportion of hungry people increased by 69%.
The eight millennium goals are therefore more closer than a few years ago? Progress comes more encouraging on the face of maternal health. According to the report "Trends in maternal mortality ", in sub-Saharan Africa maternal mortality decreased by 26% and in Asia the number of maternal deaths is estimated to have declined from 315,000 to 139,000 between 1990 and 2008, a decrease of 52%.

The progress is remarkable, said UNICEF, but the rate of decline is less than half of what is necessary to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of reducing maternal mortality by 75% between 1990 and 2015, which will require an annual fall of 5.5%, decline by 34% compared to 1990 equivalent to a decrease in annual average of just 2.3%.
The result, however, marked a clear progress against maternal mortality, a plague that afflicts mainly the countries where the health care system is precarious, and with few resources. 99% of all maternal deaths in 2008 occurred in developing countries, with Sub Saharan Africa and South Asia, accounting for 57% and 30% of all deaths.

In view of the UN Summit of September 20th a large group of Italian associations has launched its proposals in the dossier "Achieving the Millennium Development Goals . The recommendations of civil society", referring the Italian government and the delegation that will go to New York.