For the past four decades the entire world and specially developing countries, have focused
their attention on the high proportion of those affected by famine and undernourishment.
According to the latest report published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations (FAO) more than 1,020 million people lack Food Security (FS) (FAO
2009b), and in Colombia more than 6 million (NU 2009; ICBF 2006); this estimate has
been increasing considerably since 1995-97. Yet the 1980's and early 1990s, showed a
significant progress in reducing hunger, though slower than the necessary to meet hungerreduction
as proposed by the first Millennium Development Goal.