Hunger in the World: Costs and Benefits of Remedies

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  • Kostas Stamoulis
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On World Food Day—October 16, 2002—the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) issued its annual assessment of world food insecurity in its annual report entitled “The State of Food Insecurity in the World.” Food security and food insecurity have different meanings for different people, times, and places. However, in the context of this report, food insecurity is not about food safety or national self-sufficiency in food production. Rather, it is about chronic hunger. The conclusion of this report is that “progress in reducing hunger in the developing world has slowed to a crawl and in most regions the number of undernourished people is actually growing.” Only in China, Southeast Asia, South America, and West Africa did both the number and the share of the undernourished population decrease. In every other region of the developing world the number of undernourished increased, and in most of these the proportion of undernourished in the population also increased.

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تاریخ انتشار 2010