Monitoring MDG and WFS targets

Abstract

Worldwide developing countries have reduced hunger as measured by the food security statistics known as Millennium Development Goals (MDG) indicator 5 and the indicator of the World Food Summit (WFS) during the 1990’s, but the reduction has slowed down during the most recent five-year period. Asia and the Pacific (AP) has contributed to the overall decrease in hunger in a similar pattern as the developing world; its pace has been fast enough up to now, but the efforts have to be intensif ied to reach the MDG target by 2015. In AP, hunger may not be a problem in two countries (less than 2.5% of the population are chronically hungry) but yet remains a concern for one country (more than 35% of the population are chronically hungry). All the other countries are very close to reach the MDG target, although most of the south Asian countries need to step up the pace occurred during the second half of the 1990’s from now onto 2015.