Hunger Rates Fall, but the Decrease Slows

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I'm Mario Ritter with the VOA Special English Development Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish The latest Global Hunger Index report says the number of hungry people worldwide has fallen twenty-five percent since ninety ninety. Last year the estimate topped one billion people for the first time. But this year's report says the number of people not getting enough to eat has fallen to nine hundred twenty-five million. Still, many experts worry that hunger rates are not falling fast enough to meet United Nations goals. One of the first of the Millennium Development Goals is to reduce the hunger rate by fifty percent between ninety ninety and twenty fifteen. Caroline Hurford at the U.N. World Food Program says the reduction in hunger rates has slowed in recent years. She says there was a small decrease in the number of hungry people in the late nineteen nineties. But then it rose again during the financial crisis of two thousand seven and two thousand eight. And then high food prices, together with high fuel prices caused more problems. And climate change has made it more difficult to grow food.The Global Hunger Index is prepared by three private organizations based in Germany, the United States and Ireland. The latest report says twenty-nine countries have levels of hunger that are considered "alarming." The biggest increases were found in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The report says hunger has risen by more than sixty-five pe

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