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Global food insecurity expected to drop

A report from the USDA’s Economic Research Service projects a significant drop in global food insecurity over the next decade. Projections show rising incomes and low food prices for many of the 76 low-and-middle-income countries in the study, indicating food security will improve by 2027.  The 17 percent of the world’s population currently considered ‘food insecure’ is projected to fall to about nine percent in ten years. That still leaves 372 million people short on food, but the intensity of food insecurity is expected to decline.  Asia is expected to have the biggest drop in food insecurity with its GDP projected to grow more than 6 percent annually in the next decade.