Regional overview of food insecurity: Latin America and the Caribbean. The region has reached the international hunger targets
In the last two decades, food and nutritional security have become an integral part of the political agenda of Latin America and the Caribbean, and the eradication of hunger and malnutrition is now a regional development objective. In 1990-92, Latin America and the Caribbean began the challenge of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) with 14.7% of its population affected by hunger. By 2014-16 this prevalence has fallen to 5.5% and the region has achieved the MDG hunger goal. The region also met the goal of the World Food Summit (WFS) established in 1996, having reduced the total number of people suffering hunger to 34.3 million. Poverty has also declined from 2002 onwards, from 44% to 28%, although extreme poverty has risen in the last two years.
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| Format: | Texto biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
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Santiago (Chile) FAO
2015
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| Subjects: | food security, food supply, right to food, FAO, famine, undernutrition, monitoring, natural disasters, climate change, adaptation, national planning, regional policies, |
| Online Access: | http://www.fao.org/3/a-i4636e.pdf |
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