GPHY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: World Food Summit, Millennium Development Goals, Food Security

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GPHY 101
• Professor: Anne Godlewska

Document Summary

Major initiatives: in 1996 the wfs pledged to cut the number of hungry people to 400 mill by. 2015: in 2000 the un declared modest millennium development goal of halving the proportion of under nourished people in developing countries by. 2015: since 1996 the un, developing countries and non gov organizations working to deal malnutrition. State of world hunger, 2016: about 795 million people are undernourished, roughly 1 in 9 people world wide, prevalence of undernourishment gone down from 18. 7% to 11. 3, in developing countries, gone down from 23. 4% to 13. 5% Success in improving nutrition requires a multi-pronged approach: agricultural production and productivity, rural development, forestry, public works, education, effective food security monitoring and sound analysis, fostering trade and managing markets. Since 2005, a pro-indigenous government: nationalized gas and telecommunications industries, price controls on goods and service, land reform, redistributing income.