Jose Graziano da Silva, Food and Agriculture Organization Director-General.Chronic undernourishment is a technical euphemism for being chronically hungry.
Despite decades of effort to eliminate hunger, the latest estimate is that about 11% of people on the planet (about 820 million people) are suffering daily undernourishment.
“met the relevant Millennium Development Goal of halving the proportion of the population suffering from undernourishment and the World Food Summit target of halving the absolute numbers of the hungry.”
" We are not on track, " said Kundhavi Kadiresan of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. " Progress in reducing undernourishment has slowed a lot in the past few years."
The limp clothes covering an apparently weedy body, the general air of undernourishment, the wilting appearance that made one feel that the muscles must be flabby as tired elastic.