About this report

Foreword

Towards the World Food Summit target

Undernourishment around the world

Depth of hunger: how hungry are the hungry?

Estimates and projections of hunger

Food deprivation: prevalence and depth of hunger

Locating the hungry in countries in transition

Nutritional status and vulnerability

The spectrum of malnutrition

Women: different needs, greater risks

Diets of hungry people

Finding out who is hungry: profiling vulnerable groups

Dynamics of change

The dividends of food security

Cassava research: boosting food security in Ghana and Nigeria

Thailand: Steady reduction in poverty and malnutrition

The way ahead

Accelerating the pace of progress

Glossary

Tables

Acronyms

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Acknowledgements

The second edition of The state of food insecurity in the world was prepared as a collaborative effort between the Economic and Social Department (ES) and the General Affairs and Information Department (GI) of FAO.

Overall leadership was provided by Hartwig de Haen, Assistant Director-General, ES, assisted by Nicholas Hughes, Programme Co-ordinator, ES, with conceptual guidance by Shalini Dewan, Chief, Publishing and Multimedia Service (GI).

The core technical team in the ES Department consisted of: Barbara Huddleston, Agriculture and Economic Development Analysis Division; Janice Albert, Barbara Burlingame and Simon Chevassus, Food and Nutrition Division; and Jorges Mernies and Loganaden Naiken, Statistics Division.

Substantive editorial and design support was provided by the Multimedia Group of the Information Division, GI, led by Catharine Way and Nicholas Rubery, with assistance from Kate Dunn and Diana Willensky. Language editing services were provided by the Editorial Group and translations by the Translation Group>

The following staff provided technical contributions:

NeBambi Lutaladio and Marcio Porto, Plant Production and Protection Division, Agriculture Department; Rachel Sauvinet-Bedouin and Sumiter Broca, Agriculture and Economic Development Analysis Division, ES; Marijke Drysdale, Commodities and Trade Division, ES; Jelle Bruinsma, Global Perspective Studies Unit, and David Wilcock, Interagency Working Group on FIVIMS, ES; Teresa Calderon, William Clay, Jean-Pierre Cotier, Irela Mazar, Ellen Muehlhoff, Kraisid Tontisirin and Robert Weisell, Food and Nutrition Division, ES; Jan Johnson and Ron Maine, Fisheries Industries Division, Fisheries Department; Ergin Ataman and Gillian Bunting, Research, Extension and Training Division, Sustainable Development Department; and David Sedik, Regional Office for Europe.

We also wish to acknowledge the contributions of Alfred Dixon and Mpoko Bokanga, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Abuja, Nigeria; Camilla Knox-Peebles, FIVIMS Vulnerability Assessment Expert; Maria Josefina Archondo, Nutrition Consultant, Bolivia; Jehangir Khan Khalil, Dean, Faculty of Nutrition Sciences, North West Frontier Province Agricultural University, Peshawar, Pakistan; Mary Mwewa, Mansa Technology Assessment Site, Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries, Zambia; and, Benoit Horemans, Sustainable Livelihood Fisheries Programme, Benin.