The State of Food Insecurity in the World, 2005: Eradicating World Hunger - Key to Achieving the Millennium Development Goals

The State of Food Insecurity in the World, 2005: Eradicating World Hunger - Key to Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
ISBN-10
9251053847
ISBN-13
9789251053843
Category
Social Science
Pages
40
Language
English
Published
2005
Publisher
Food & Agriculture Org.

Description

2015 was the deadline by which world leaders pledged to reduce hunger and extreme poverty by half and to make substantial gains in education, health, social equity, environmental sustainability and international solidarity. This study examines progress towards the World Food Summit goals and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), focusing on the critical importance of reducing hunger, not only as the explicit target of MDG 1 but as an essential condition for reaching the other MDGs. Hunger and malnutrition are major causes of the deprivation and suffering targeted by all of the other MDGs. Progress towards those targets has lagged, particularly in the countries and regions where efforts to reduce hunger have stalled. Most, if not all, of the MDG targets can still be reached, but only if efforts are redoubled and refocused. And only by recognizing and acting on two key points: without rapid progress in reducing hunger, achieving all of the other MDGs will be difficult, if not impossible; and the fight to eliminate hunger and reach the other MDGs will be won or lost in the rural areas where the vast majority of the world's hungry people live.

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