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Monitoring MDG and WFS targets

Latin America and the Caribbean

Year of publication 2006

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short 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. Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) 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 must accelerate eff orts to ensure reaching the MDG target by 2015. In LAC, hunger may not be a problem in one country (less than 2.5% of the population are chronically hungry). Four countries have already reached the MDG target and more than 10 countries are making progress towards the target, although many of them will need to step up the pace occurred during the 1990’s from now onto 2015. Still, two countries have made no progress in their hunger situation and three countries have deteriorated.

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