The State of Food Insecurity in the World Meeting the 2015 International Hunger Targets: Taking Stock of Uneven Progress

Food and Agriculture Organization

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Abstract: This year’s annual State of Food Insecurity in the World report takes stock of progress made towards achieving the internationally established hunger targets and reflects on what needs to be done, as there is transition to the new post 2015 - Sustainable Development Agenda. United Nations member states have made two major commitments to tackle world hunger. The first was at the World Food Summit (WFS), in Rome in 1996, when 182 governments committed “... to eradicate hunger in all countries, with an immediate view to reducing the number of undernourished people to half their present level no later than 2015†. The second was the formulation of the First Millennium Development Goal (MDG 1), established in 2000 by the United Nations members, which includes among its targets “cutting by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger by 2015†. In this report, the progress is reviewed since 1990 for every country and region as well as for the world as a whole. First, the good news: overall, the commitment to halve the percentage of hungry people, that is, to reach the MDG 1c target, has been almost met at the global level. More importantly, 72 of the 129 countries monitored for progress have reached the MDG target, 29 of which have also reached the more ambitious WFS goal by at least halving the number of undernourished people in their populations.

Keywords: Nutrition; Hunger; Poverty; Food Insecurity; Hunger Targets; Millennium Development Goals (MDG); Sustainable Development Agenda; World Food Summit (WFS); Undernourished People; Food Security; Economic Growth; Family Farming; Smallholder Agriculture; Social Protection; Global Trends. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-10
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