The 2015 deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals is fast
approaching. As a result, deliberations on how to accelerate progress toward
meeting the goals by 2015 and beyond have intensified. Now underway is a discussion
of a post-2015 development agenda that will advance what began with
the Millennium Development Goals. The UN secretary-general appointed a
High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda,
which proposed potential new goals and targets that will guide the agenda and
culminate in a set of sustainable development goals.2 Central to the discussions
of the post-2015 agenda is the goal of eliminating extreme poverty by
2030. Though ambitious and laudable, this goal is not enough: we argue that
it is equally important to eliminate hunger and undernutrition and that we
should aim to do so by 2025.