World Hunger to Decline for First Time in 15 Years

The number of hungry people in the world will fall this year for the first time in 15 years on food costs below a 2008 peak and on economic growth that’s lifting incomes, a United Nations agency said.

Hunger remains “unacceptably high,” with an estimated 925 million people undernourished this year, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization said in a statement on its website today. That compares with a record 1.02 billion people in 2009, according to the Rome-based agency.