Executive summary

                                    The challenge of eliminating global hunger is more about raising the incomes of the poor than an issue of food prices.                              Eliminating hunger and malnutrition, and achieving global food security more widely, is among the most intractable problems humanity faces. While many once poor countries are now developing rapidly, the world as a whole is unlikely to meet the First Millennium Development Goal target of halving, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of the world’s population who suffer from hunger. According to FAO figures, the total number of undernourished people in developing countries has fallen from just under a billion in 1990-92 to around 852 million in 2010-12. However, the pace of reduction has slowed and the absolute numbers remain stubbornly high.      