FAO Report on The State of Food Insecurity in the World published

FAO has published its latest report The State of Food Insecurity in the World: The Multiple Dimensions of Food Security. The report provides a global progress update towards achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) and World Food Summit (WFS) hunger goals. The latest findings indicate that South Asia contains the largest share of undernourished in the world—35 percent of total global share, and although undernourishment has declined since 1990/91, progress has been slower than expected compared to other Asian regions. Similarly, the report also states that Nepal has made remarkable progress in reducing undernourishment and could achieve the MDG target on hunger by 2015. However, it mentions that political stability, spatial and socio-economic inequality, poor quality of infrastructure and lack of economic development are still important impediments towards reducing undernourishment in the country. More...