FAO / FOOD INSECURITY REPORT

More than 800 million people in the world –or one in nine – suffer from hunger, according to a UN report. The study noted a global decrease by more than 100 million over the last decade and by more than 200 million since 1990-92. FAO

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:56
• Production Date: 16 September 2014
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION - FAO; WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME - WFP
• Subject Topical: NUTRITION
• MAMS Id: 1171911

Description

STORY: FAO / FOOD INSECURITY REPORT
TRT: 01:56
SOURCE: FAO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 16 SEPTEMBER 2014, FAO HEADQUARTERS, ROME, ITALY

Shotlist

1. External shots of FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Josè Graziano da Silva, FAO Director-General:
“We have 200 million less undernourished people nowadays compared [to] when we started, in the 1990s, and also, to be more precise, 209 million. In the same period the prevalence of undernourishment has fallen globally by 18.7 percent to 11.3 percent.”
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jomo Kwame Sundaram, FAO Assistant Director-General:
“Progress has been quite uneven among different regions and sub-regions. The progress has been greatest in South-East Asia and East Asia more generally, as well as in Latin America. There has been much less progress in South Asia and very little progress in Sub-Saharan Africa, until fairly recently.”

DATELINE: JUNE 2014, BOMBALI AND BO DISTRICTS, SIERRA LEONE

4. Close up, farmer working the land
5. Med shot, farmer picking vegetables
6. Med shot, farmers collecting straw
7. Med shot, men weighing grain
8. Wide shot, farmers working the land
9. Close up, machine spreading straw on the field
10. Med shot, man checking bags with grain
11. Wide shot, farmers picking grains
12. Close up, grain
13. Med shot, farmers with bags of grain

DATELINE: MARCH 2014, MEKONG DELTA, BEN TRE, VIETNAM

14. Wide shot, man working in an aquaculture space
15. Close up, water
16. Wide shot, aquaculture space
17. Close up, hydro-wheels
18. Med shot, fisherman
19. Close up, fishing net
20. Med shot, scientists working in a laboratory
21. Close up, scientist working with fish samples
22. Med shot, scientist looking at samples
23. Med shot, fisherman on a boat
24. Close up, fisherman

Storyline

According to a new UN report released today (16 Sep), about 805 million people in the world –one in nine – suffer from hunger.

The State of Food Insecurity in the World (SOFI 2014) confirmed a positive trend which has seen the number of hungry people decline globally by more than 100 million over the last decade and by more than 200 million since 1990-92.

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director-General, Josè Graziano da Silva, noted that since 1990, “the prevalence of undernourishment has fallen globally by 18.7 percent to 11.3 percent.”

However, the UN agency’s Assistant Director-General, Jomo Kwame Sundaram, highlighted that the progress has been “quite uneven” among regions and sub-regions.

He said that “the progress has been greatest in South-East Asia and East Asia more generally, as well as in Latin America. There has been much less progress in South Asia and very little progress in Sub-Saharan Africa, until fairly recently.”

The report is published annually by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP).

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The Mekong Delta, in Vietnam, is one of the most intensely cultivated areas in Asia. In this province alone, nearly 45,000 hectares of land are devoted to aquaculture, producing shrimp and catfish for local consumption and export around the world.

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To protect their land, local farmers living along the coast of Ben Tre province planted a five-kilometre-long wall of trees. But now because of increased violent storms and salt water flooding, many trees are dying or being washed away.