USDA Focused On International Food Insecurity

USDA's annual international food security assessment primarily focuses on ten-year projections for the developing regions of the world.  USDA Economic Researcher Karen Tomey says, for instance, Asia's food insecure population is expected to decline from well over 16% this year to under 5% by the year 2028.

"And that's driven by the fact that India, and a lot of the countries in southeast Asia have really high GDP and also per capita income growth rate, so that drives their improvement."

Latin America and the Caribbean are expected to see a ten-percent drop in food insecure population over the next decade.  While the most food secure region under study, north Africa, should see a 2% decline.  Tomey, however, said there are some concerns related to Sub-Saharan Africa.

"The situation is improving much more slowly, and there are actually some parts of that continent where the food security situation is projected to get worse in the next decade."

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