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
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