The 2013 Hunger Report-Within Reach Global Development Goals (2012) calls for a final push to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets by 2015. Extraordinary progress has occurred in countries around the world and it is possible to replicate these achievements in more. The 2013 Hunger Report focuses special attention on the U.S. role in achieving the…
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According to The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2012, produced by FAO, WFP, IFAD, http://www.fao.org/docrep/016/i3027e/i3027e.pdf http://www.fao.org/docrep/016/i2845e/i2845e00.pdf: • New estimates suggest that the increase in hunger during 2007–10 – the period characterized by food price and economic crises – was less severe than previously estimated. More recent GDP estimates suggest that the “great recession” of…
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According to OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2012-2021, http://www.oecd.org/site/oecd-faoagriculturaloutlook/ India specific observations: • Food inflation moderated in 2012 as compared to 2011 in many of the large Asian countries with a strong deceleration in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, often falling by 40% or more. • In China and India, crop production is expected to grow by more than 50%…
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Key findings of the State of World Population 2011: People and possibilities in a world of 7 billion, UNFPA, http://foweb.unfpa.org/SWP2011/reports/EN-SWOP2011-FINAL.pdf are as follows: • Nations like Ethiopia and India have launched campaigns to end child marriages and prevent life-threatening adolescent pregnancies. • According to projections by the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and…
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According to Food sovereignty: Reclaiming the global food system (2011) by War on Want, http://www.waronwant.org/attachments/Food%20sovereignty%20report.pdf: • In 2009, for the first time in human history, over a billion people were officially classified as living in hunger. • Per capita food production increased by 8% in South America and 9% in South Asia between 1970 and 1990, but…
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According to the report Nourish South Asia: Grow a better future for regional food justice by Swati Narayan, Oxfam, September, 2011, http://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/cr-nourish-south-asia-grow-260911-en.pdf: • Children are the most vulnerable. In homes, nutritional rehabilitation centres and hospitals, unreported by the media, every single day more than 2000 children die of hunger in India alone. • At the peak of…
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According to Global Food Losses and Food Waste: Extent, Causes and Prevention, Food and Agriculture Organization (2011),http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/ags/publications/GFL_web.pdf: • Roughly one-third of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted globally, which amounts to about 1.3 billion tons per year. • Overall, on a per-capita basis, much more food is wasted in the industrialized world…
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