Africa surpasses Asia with highest population facing hunger: UN

PARIS: Africa has for the first time become the continent with the largest number of people facing hunger, a UN report said on Tuesday (Jul 21), as a growing number of Africans have faced undernourishment.The UN's annual report on food security and nutrition found that there has been gradual improvement towards reducing hunger overall in recent years, but that progress has been uneven."The centre of gravity of hunger has shifted from Asia to Africa," said David Laborde, director of the agrifood economics division at the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)."Twenty-five years ago China still had a problem with hunger but they solved them; India also has a problem but they are putting lots of effort into actively resolving it," he told AFP. The report, put together by the FAO and four oth