An ambitious development goal: Ending hunger and undernutrition by 2025

Shenggen Fan and Paul Polman

Chapter 2 in 2013 Global Food Policy Report, 2014, pp 15-28 from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: Much attention in 2013 was devoted to considering what should follow the Millennium Development Goals, which will come to an end in 2015. This chapter calls for prioritizing the elimination of hunger and undernutrition globally by 2025 and discusses what it will take to achieve that goal.

Keywords: agricultural policies; nutrition policies; food policy; food security; Nutrition; Hunger; undernourishment; stunting; malnutrition; intensification; Agricultural research; research and development; information and communication technology (ICT); technology adoption; social safety nets; social protection; Markets; trade; economic development; agricultural development; agricultural production; Smallholders; productivity; economic indicators; Eastern Europe; Europe; South West Asia; Central Asia; South Asia; Asia; Africa south of Sahara; North Africa; Africa; Middle East; Latin America; South America (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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