Hunger Reduced, Malnourishment Next Issue
Cambodia has reached its millennium development goal of reducing by half the number of people who suffer from hunger, but more needs to be done to make sure that the population now receives the right nutrients, officials said on World Food Day Wednesday.
Making the announcement to a crowd of about 600 students and farmers at the Cambodian Agriculture Research and Development Institute in Phnom Penh, Minister of Agriculture Ouk Rabun did not say how many people suffered from hunger, which is measured by the proportion of people whose calorie intake is lower than required. …
From 1990 to 1992, 39.4 percent of Cambodians were undernourished, a figure that was brought down to 15.4 percent last year, according to figures by the Food and Agriculture Organization. …
About 40 percent of children under the age of 5 are stunted—a symptom of malnourishment and underdevelopment of the brain—and 55 percent suffer from anemia, according to the 2010 Demographic Health Survey. …
Denise Hruby and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hunger-reduced-malnourishment-next-issue-45363/
