The USDA says the number of food insecure people in low and middle-income countries is lower this year than it was last year, but is projected to increase over the next decade. There are nine percent fewer people this year – 475 million – who aren’t getting the nutritional target of roughly 21-hundred calories per person per day in the 76 countries studied by the agency.
But over the next ten years, the number of food-insecure people is projected to increase 31 percent to 622 million.
The projected rise in food insecurity is driven mostly by population growth and civil strife in the Sub-Saharan African countries of Uganda, Ethiopia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. It’s driven by political instability in the Asian countries of Bangladesh, Yemen and India.
The food security situation is projected to improve in Latin America as they increase grain output and slow population growth.
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