Hunger could be eliminated by 2025 if enough resources are committed and countries scale up policies proven to work, an international food policy organisation suggests in a new report.
"Based on the successful experiences of several developing countries, we see the clear potential for ending hunger and under-nutrition by 2025 if the necessary policies and investments are adopted," Shanggen Fan, director general of the International Food Policy Research Institute, wrote in the institute's 2013 Global Food Policy Report.
Hunger is a continuing concern in many parts of the world, particularly with food prices rising, population growth continuing and extreme weather associated with climate change affecting harvests.
Still, the 2015 deadline for the United Nations' Millennium Development Goal of halving world hunger remains "within reach," according to the U.N. Millennium Development Goals Report 2013, even though one person in eight in the world remaining chronically undernourished, the report said. READ MORE
Source: www.allafrica.com #IFAMAFRICA
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