According to the 2015 report on the State of Food Insecurityin the World released Friday by Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the
United Nations, hunger remains an every-day challenge for 10m Ugandans.
The experts argue that this figure of under-fed or
malnourished people indicates that the country has scored dismally on the
Millennium Development Goal (MDG) one—eradication of extreme poverty and
hunger.
For instance, the report shows that the prevalence of
undernourishment in Uganda has been increasing from 4.2m in 1990 to 10.3m in
2015 up from 8.7m people in 2010.
“Eastern Africa remains the subregion with the biggest
hunger problem in absolute terms, being home to 124 million undernourished
people,” the report states.
In east Africa, Tanzania has the worst undernourishment
figures (16.8m), while Kenya comes third (9.9m) and Rwanda register a minimal
3.9m people, who are under-fed. Uganda is second.
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