“China’s achievements against hunger have been impressive,” Graziano da Silva said at the FAO Headquarters at a ceremony to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the cooperation between the UN agency and China.China has reduced the prevalence of its undernourished people from 23 percent in 1990 to 11.4 percent in 2013, he said. China has registered some of the world’s sharpest poverty and hunger reductions in the past 20 years and met the target of reducing by half the proportion of its chronically hungry people, as specified by the first Millennium Development Goal, Graziano da Silva pointed out. The FAO is proud to have witnessed and contributed to China’s tremendous feat of feeding 20 percent of the world’s population with only 9 percent of the world’s arable land and 6 percent of its freshwater, he added. The four-decade relationship between the FAO and China has so far been solid and profitable for both sides, according to the head of the UN Food agency.

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