Food security
In a world of growing prosperity and agricultural abundance,about800million people still do not get enough to eat.Eliminating hunger is thus one of the most fundamental challenges facing humanity.The challenge is a complex one so much so that this book devotes two chapter to unraveling its multiple dimensions.As chapter7 explain, the task of reducing hunger another one of the targets under the first of the MDGs is shaped by interlinked issues of food availability,access to food,food security,and distribution.Food availability refer to the supply of food,whether at the global,regional,national,or local level,without regard to the ability of individuals to acquire it.Sources of supply may include production within the household,domestic commercial food production ,food stocks accumulated in earlier periods,commercially purchased imports,and food aid.There are presently no signs of a food availability problem at the global level.In fact,global food production has more than kept pace with growing world population in recent decades,increasing in per capita terms by0.9percent annually and even faster in such populous developing countries as China and India