FAO hunger report shows changing face of food insecurity in Europe, Central Asia

A front-runner in the race to end hunger, the region still struggles with malnutrition

A consumer reading a nutrition label in a supermarket.

©Photo: ©FAO/Vasily Maximov

18/06/2015

18 June 2015, Budapest - Multiple trends are shaping the nutrition map for Europe and Central Asia, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s first-ever report on food insecurity and malnutrition in Europe and Central Asia, released today. The problems of food insecurity have changed away from that of caloric sufficiency toward the quality of peoples’ diets – a trend that will likely continue in this way.

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