Abstract
At its December session, the FAO Council recommended an important amendment to the first global goal of the organization, from diminishing hunger to its elimination, which reads as follows: ‘eradication of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition, progressively ensuring a world in which all people at all times have sufficient safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life’ [revised language in italics]. Expected to be endorsed by the FAO Conference at its forthcoming session in June 2013, this substantial policy change would represent a radical transformation of the current strategy in this regard, which less ambitiously aims to reduce the absolute number of undernourished people—in line with Millennium Development Goal 1 to halve the proportion of those who suffer from starvation by 2015—rather than aspiring to the complete eradication of hunger and malnutrition worldwide.
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