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  • Title: Table set thinly as Food Summit pledges to halve world hunger in 20 years.
    Journal: UN Chron; 1996; (4):24-8. PubMed ID: 12348018.
    Abstract:
    By 2030, global population will grow from the current size of 5.7 billion to 8.7 billion. Just maintaining current levels of food availability will require rapid and sustainable production gains, for supplies must be increased by more than 75% without destroying the planet's natural resources. At current levels of food availability, however, 840 million people worldwide are chronically undernourished because they are unable to acquire enough food to meet their body's energy or nutrient requirements. More than 200 million children under age 5 years suffer from basic protein and energy deficiencies, while millions suffer from diseases and retarded development related to diet deficiencies. Each year, almost 13 million children die unnecessarily as a direct or indirect result of hunger and malnutrition. The World Food Summit took place in Rome during November 13-17, 1996. 9863 delegates from 186 countries participated in charting the course toward achieving universal food security by adopting the Rome Declaration on World Food Security and the World Food Summit Plan of Action. The documents also pledge efforts to halve the number of hungry in the world no later than 2015.
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