The well-fed have many problems, the hungry only one.
UN Chronicle › Vol. 38 Nbr. 3, September 2001
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Mission Statement - International Fund for Agricultural Development - Statistical Data Included
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The well-fed have many problems, the hungry only one.
There is general agreement within the international community that we are not currently on track to reach the goal of the World Food Summit: to reduce by half the number of undernourished people in the world by the year 2015. In other words, the state of world food security and nutrition in 2001 is not what we had hoped it would be. From this, compelling questions follow, namely, what are we doing about the situation, and will we be able to do enough in time to meet the Summit goal?
Poverty hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition are closely linked. On a conceptual level, the interrelations can be complex; on a human level, the r...See the full content of this document
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