n 2000, world leaders met and adopted the United Nations Millennium Declaration. Later, eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were set out, including the first one on halving hunger and extreme poverty rates, reflecting the world’s commitment to improving the lives of billions of people.
Half a year remains before the end of 2015, the deadline for achieving most of the MDG targets, including the hunger target, MDG 1c, traditionally measured using the prevalence of undernourishment (PoU) indicator. As this report shows, since 1990–92, over 216 million people have been rescued from a life of hunger – to date, 72 countries have already reached the MDG 1c hunger target, with another nine just short by a small margin. Of these, 12 developing countries already had undernourishment rates below 5 percent in 1990–92. Meanwhile, twenty-nine countries have accomplished the more ambitious 1996 World Food Summit (WFS) goal of halving the number of chronically underfed people (Tables 2 and 3, pp. 12–13).
Progress towards food security and nutrition targets requires that food is available, accessible and of sufficient quantity and quality to ensure good nutritional outcomes. Proper nutrition contributes to human development; it helps people realize their full potential and take advantage of opportunities offered by the development process. As past editions of this report (2010, 2012 and 2014) have shown, good governance, political stability and the rule of law, and the absence of conflict and civil strife, weather-related shocks or excessive food price volatility, are conducive to all dimensions of food security.
This section looks at a range of factors that enable progress towards food security and nutrition goals. The list of factors – economic growth, agricultural productivity growth, markets (including international trade) and social protection – is by no means exhaustive. The section also shows how being in a protracted crisis has deleterious effects on progress in hunger reduction. Preliminary quantitative analysis, using data from the period 1992–2013, has helped identify these drivers of change and their relative importance in shaping progress against hunger.24
Economic growth is central to the fight against hunger – countries that become richer are less susceptible to food insecurity. Policy-makers in rapidly growing economies hav
n 2000, world leaders met and adopted the United Nations Millennium Declaration. Later, eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were set out, including the first one on halving hunger and extreme poverty rates, reflecting the world’s commitment to improving the lives of billions of people.Half a year remains before the end of 2015, the deadline for achieving most of the MDG targets, including the hunger target, MDG 1c, traditionally measured using the prevalence of undernourishment (PoU) indicator. As this report shows, since 1990–92, over 216 million people have been rescued from a life of hunger – to date, 72 countries have already reached the MDG 1c hunger target, with another nine just short by a small margin. Of these, 12 developing countries already had undernourishment rates below 5 percent in 1990–92. Meanwhile, twenty-nine countries have accomplished the more ambitious 1996 World Food Summit (WFS) goal of halving the number of chronically underfed people (Tables 2 and 3, pp. 12–13).Progress towards food security and nutrition targets requires that food is available, accessible and of sufficient quantity and quality to ensure good nutritional outcomes. Proper nutrition contributes to human development; it helps people realize their full potential and take advantage of opportunities offered by the development process. As past editions of this report (2010, 2012 and 2014) have shown, good governance, political stability and the rule of law, and the absence of conflict and civil strife, weather-related shocks or excessive food price volatility, are conducive to all dimensions of food security.This section looks at a range of factors that enable progress towards food security and nutrition goals. The list of factors – economic growth, agricultural productivity growth, markets (including international trade) and social protection – is by no means exhaustive. The section also shows how being in a protracted crisis has deleterious effects on progress in hunger reduction. Preliminary quantitative analysis, using data from the period 1992–2013, has helped identify these drivers of change and their relative importance in shaping progress against hunger.24Economic growth is central to the fight against hunger – countries that become richer are less susceptible to food insecurity. Policy-makers in rapidly growing economies hav
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