Despite gains, millions go hungry

Despite gains, millions go hungry

Trends in undernutrition in developing countries, 1969-2010

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), FAOSTAT Statistical Database (FAO, Rome, 1997).

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) organized a World Food Summit in 1996 with the goal of reducing the number of undernourished people to half their current level by no later than 2015. Even though governments made no financial commitments, the summit planners did assemble a mass of data on food and its availability, little of it encouraging. According to FAO projections, the chronically undernourished portion of the Earth