Failure to End Hunger

09/24/2010

An environment is a living, changing system…It conditions how we feel, think, and behave; and it dramatically affects the quality of our lives.
Jim Greenman, Caring Spaces, Learning Places

One target of the Millennium Development Goals, agreed to by world leaders a decade ago, is to halve the proportion of undernourished people in developing countries by 2015. Recent developments, as reported in the Financial Times (September 15, 2010), call into question whether this goal will be achieved.

Steady, if not dramatic, progress toward achieving this goal was hampered by the mid-2007 food crisis, which resulted in the number of undernourished individuals to increase to over 1 billion for the first time. An encouraging 10% decline in this number in the past year may be offset, reports the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization, by a recent spike in the prices for cereal, meat, and sugar. In addition, the recent floods in Pakistan and the ongoing food and shelter crisis in Haiti will increase levels of hunger.

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