Thirteen countries, including six African will receive a distinction to have achieved remarkable progress in the fight against hunger, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

These countries include Brazil, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Gabon, the Gambia, Iran, Kiribati, Malaysia, Mauritania, Mauritius, the Mexico, Philippines and Uruguay.

FAO said Wednesday that these countries are the last to appear on a list of countries that carry out major advances in the fight against malnutrition.

These achievements include the beginning of realization of the objective of the Millennium for development 1 (MDG 1) whose goal is to reduce by half the proportion of people suffering from hunger by 2015 and the objective of the World Food Summit 1996 (ADM) to reduce by half, the absolute number of people suffering from hunger by 2015.

The Director-general FAO, José Graziano da Silva, will certify progress achieved by these 13 countries through the granting of diplomas to their representatives at a ceremony which will be held, Sunday, at FAO headquarters in Rome.

Aware of this year, FAO has recognized the achievements of three countries while in 2013, 38 countries have received a distinction for reducing by half the proportion and the number of people who suffer from hunger before the 2015 deadline.

According to estimates by the FAO, Ethiopia, Gabon, the Gambia, the Iran, Kiribati, the Malaysia, Mauritania, Mauritius, the Mexico and the Philippines have reached the goal of reducing hunger (MDG 1) while the Brazil, Cameroon and Uruguay also reached the objective of ADM that is more ambitious and reducing by half the number of people suffering from hunger by 2015.