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Addressing food insecurity in protracted crises
Major report, 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
Major report, 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
Major report, 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
Major report, 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
Major report, 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
Major report, 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...