2005: The State of Food Insecurity in the World

Only ten years now remain before the 2015 deadline by which world leaders have pledged to reduce hunger and extreme poverty by half and to make substantial gains in education, health, social equity, environmental sustainability and international solidarity. Without stronger commitment and more rapid progress, most of those goals will not be met. If each of the developing regions continues to reduce hunger at the current pace, only Latin America and the Caribbean will reach the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of cutting the proportion of hungry people by half. Progress towards the other MDG targets has also lagged, particularly in the countries and regions where efforts to reduce hunger have stalled.

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Contributor: Emmanuel Habumuremyi
Published Date: January 31, 2008