Hunger is falling, but climate and conflict threaten progress: report

By Chris Arsenault LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Land redistribution in Brazil, community gardens in Indonesia, and rising incomes across much of the developing world have helped end hunger for 100 million people in the last decade, new research shows. Globally, an estimated 209 million fewer people face chronic undernourishment today compared to 1990, according to The State of Food Security in the World 2014, a United Nations report released on Tuesday in Rome. “There has been real progress,” Ertharin Cousin, executive director of the World Food Program, told reporters. …