Background: Unacceptably Slow Progress against Hunger and Malnutrition
Food security has deteriorated since 1995 and reductions in child malnutrition are proceeding too slowly to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target for halving hunger by 2015. Three major challenges threaten to drastically complicate efforts to overcome food insecurity and malnutrition: climate change, the growing use of food crops as a source of fuel and soaring food prices.
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Tags: bioenergy, Climate change, hunger, malnutrition, MDG
