Hunger and Malnutrition Amidst Plenty: What Must be Done?

摘要

5.1 Introduction While the world has been successful in producing enough food to meet the additional demand created by rising incomes and population growth, more people were hungry in 2000-2002 (852 million) than in 1990-1992 (800 million). Poverty and hunger are tightly inter-linked and their alleviation seems to rest not only in increasing availability of food but also in enhancing the financial capacity of the poor to purchase it. Today, several countries are either unable to produce enough food to meet their demand or lack the financial resources to buy food or both. The world community set for itself the noble goal of reducing hunger and extreme poverty in developing countries by half by 2015, considering 1990 as baseline. Since we are slightly more than halfway through, it is useful to examine the progress being made.