The State of Food Insecurity in the World 1999
| dc.creator | Office of Assistant Director-General (Economic and Social Department) | |
| dc.date | 2024-11-23T10:50:28Z | |
| dc.date | 2024-11-23T10:50:28Z | |
| dc.date | 1999 | |
| dc.date | 2019-07-10T16:27:08Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-06-27T20:53:40Z | |
| dc.description | In the developing world, 790 million people do not have enough to eat, according to the most recent estimates (1995/97). That represents a decline of 40 million compared to 1990/92. At the World Food Summit in 1996, world leaders pledged to reduce the number of hungry people to around 400 million by 2015. At the current rate of progress, a reduction of 8 million undernourished people a year, there is no hope of meeting that goal. According to The State of Food Insecurity in the W orld 1999, the current reduction does not indicate uniform progress throughout the world. Indeed the data reveal that, in the first half of this decade, just 37 countries achieved a reduction in the number of undernourished, totalling 100 million people. Across the rest of the developing world, the number of hungry people actually increased by almost 60 million. This first edition of The State of Food Insecurity in the World also points out that hunger is not limited to the devel oping nations. It presents the first assessment of the number of undernourished people in the developed world, finding 8 million in the industrialized countries and 26 million in the countries in transition. | |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.format | text/html | |
| dc.identifier | 2663-807X | |
| dc.identifier | 9251043280 | |
| dc.identifier | 2663-8061 | |
| dc.identifier | https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/x3114e | |
| dc.identifier | http://www.fao.org/3/x3114e/x3114e.pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/207566 | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.relation | The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) | |
| dc.rights | FAO | |
| dc.title | The State of Food Insecurity in the World 1999 | |
| dc.title | The State of Food Insecurity in the World 1999 | |
| dc.title | Food insecurity: when people must live with hunger and fear starvation | |
| dc.type | Book (series) |