The State of Food Insecurity in the World: A news brief from Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)- Rome.

Abstract

In the developing world, 790 million people do not have enough to eat, according to the most recent estimates (1995/97). That represents a decline of 40 million compared to 1990/92. At the World Food Summit in 1996, world leaders pledged to reduce the number of hungry people to around 400 million by 2015. At the current rate of progress, a reduction of 8 million undernourished people a year, there is no hope of meeting that goal.


The Journal of Food Technology in Africa Volume 5 Number 2 (April - June 2000), pp. 38-39