Peter Boaz
WASHINGTON, Oct 11 2010 (IPS) – With the number of hungry people growing to more than a billion last year, the world is nowhere near reaching the objectives outlined in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), according to the latest Global Hunger Index (GHI) released Monday.
The first MDG to halve the proportion of hungry people between 1990 and 2015 is an unlikely hope, says the 2010 GHI report.
Though the percentage of undernourished people fell from 20 percent in 1990-92 to 16 percent in 2004-06, recent global events have reversed that progress. The widespread economic recession and lingering effects of the 2007-08 global food crisis saw the number of undernourished people surpass one billion in 2009.
The GHI, a multidimensional measure of globa…
A traffic jam in Jaciara, Brazil, caused by repairs to the BR-364 road. Credit: Mario Osava/IPS
MONTEVIDEO, Oct 2 2014 (IPS) – “We could be the last Latin American and Caribbean generation living together with hunger.”
The assertion, by Raúl Benítez, a regional officer for the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), shows one side of the coin: only 4.6 percent of the region’s population is undernourished, .
By 2030, however, most of the countries in the region will face a serious risk situation due to climate change.