A must for anyone with an interest in the changing face of language. The Macmillan Dictionary blog explores English as it is spoken around the world today. Definition and synonyms of adherence from the online English dictionary from Macmillan Publishers Limited. must for anyone with an interest in the changing face of language. The Macmillan Dictionary blog explores English as it is spoken around the world today. Definition and synonyms of adherence from the online English dictionary from Macmillan Publishers Limited.
If twelve people died of âhungerâ ever minute in Africa it would mean that 6.3-million people starve to death annually. The limited available data does not support this. According to World Health Organisation mortality data, about 9.5-million people died in Africa in 2011.
The numbers are astounding: 24 000 people die of hunger every day. Thatâs one person every four seconds. 815 million human beings suffer from malnutrition and 30 million, mostly children under five years of age, die from it every year, according to estimates from the FAO. The largest number of victims live in Africa, where 34 percent of the population is severely malnourished. An recent FAO report, The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2002, states that widespread hunger in a world of abundance is essentially the result of poverty..