The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2009: Economic crises - impacts and lessons learned
By Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Description
The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2009 presents the latest statistics on global undernourishment and concludes that structural problems of uderinvestment have impeded progress toward the World Food Summit goal and the first Millennium Development Goal hunger reduction target. This disappointing state of affairs has been exacerbated by first the food crisis and now the global economic crisis that, together, have increased the number of undernourished people in the world to more that one billion for the first time since 1970. This crisis is different from the crisis developing countri...
ISBN(s)
9251062889, 9789251062883
