Target 1.C "Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger", is not only part of the Millennium Development Goals but has also been reiterated in several forums and documents, thus highlighting the importance the problem holds for countries, and the urgent need to overcome it. Hunger is the result of food and nutritional insecurity, which is expressed, firstly, in terms of insufficient consumption of food to satisfy energy requirements, and secondly, in terms of undernutrition. Hence, progress in eradicating it should be measured both in terms of its relation to undernourishment arising from insufficient food for the population as a whole, and in terms of its manifestation among children, which is expressed in terms of children under five years of age who are underweight and small for their age.