Out of every nine people in the world, one suffers from hunger, according to the latest United Nations figures. That’s the bad news. The good news is that, despite a surging global population, the number of undernourished has dropped to 795 million from 1 billion 25 years ago.

At this rate, Jose Graziano da Silva, director general of the U.N.’s food and agriculture division, says “the scourge of hunger” could be eliminated in our lifetime. “We must be the Zero Hunger generation,” he said. “That goal should be mainstreamed into all policy interventions and at the heart of the new sustainable development agenda to be established this year.”