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Strengthening the enabling environment for food security and nutrition
Corporate publications, 2014
The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014 presents updated estimates of undernourishment and progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) and World Food Summit (WFS) hunger targets. A stock-taking of where we stand...
The multiple dimensions of food security
Corporate publications, 2013
The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2013 presents updated estimates of undernourishment and progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) and World Food Summit (WFS) hunger targets. The latest assessment shows that further...
Economic growth is necessary but not sufficient to accelerate reduction of hunger and malnutrition
Corporate publications, 2012
The 2012 edition of The State of Food Insecurity in the World focuses on the importance of economic growth in overcoming poverty, hunger and malnutrition. We are pleased to note that many, though not all,...
How does international price volatility affect domestic economies and food security?
Corporate publications, 2011
The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2011 highlights the differential impacts that the world food crisis of 2006-08 had on different countries, with the poorest being most affected. While some large countries were...
Addressing food insecurity in protracted crises
Corporate publications, 2010
Following more than a decade of seemingly inexorable increases in the number of undernourished people, estimates for 2010 presented in this edition of The State of Food Insecurity in the World show a slight glimmer...
Economic crises – impacts and lessons learned
Corporate publications, 2009
The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2009 presents the latest statistics on global undernourishment and concludes that structural problems of underinvestment have impeded progress toward the World Food Summit goal and the first...
High food prices and food security – threats and opportunities
Corporate publications, 2008
The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2008 represents FAO’s ninth progress report on world hunger since the 1996 World Food Summit (WFS). In previous editions, FAO has expressed deep concern over the lack...
Eradicating world hunger – taking stock ten years after the World Food Summit
Corporate publications, 2006
Ten years have elapsed since the World Food Summit (WFS) in Rome pledged to halve the number of undernourished people in the world by no later than 2015, and in October 2006 FAO's Committee on...
Eradicating world hunger – key to achieving the Millennium Development Goals
Corporate publications, 2005
Only ten years now remain before the 2015 deadline by which world leaders have pledged to reduce hunger and extreme poverty by half and to make substantial gains in education, health, social equity, environmental sustainability...
Monitoring progress towards the World Food Summit and Millennium Development Goals
Corporate publications, 2004
The sixth edition of The State of Food Insecurity in the World reports that the number of chronically hungry people in the developing world has fallen by only 9 million since the World Food Summit...