"There could be a lot more done to reduce the number of hungry people in the world", said Mr. Hartwig De Haen, FAO Assistant Director-General, at a press conference in Rome. The report says that more than 30 developing countries* have reduced the percentage of hungry people by at least 25 percent during the 1990s. *Angola, Benin, Brazil, Chad, Chile, China, Republic of Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guyana, Ecuador, Haiti, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kuwait, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritania, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nigeria, Peru, Syria, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, and Viet Nam.