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The State of Food and Agriculture 2012 - Executive Summary

Investing in agriculture for a better future






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    The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2012 - Executive Summary
    Economic growth is necessary but not sufficient to accelerate reduction of hunger and malnutrition
    2012
    The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2012 presents new estimates of the number and proportion of undernourished people going back to 1990, dened in terms of the distribution of dietary energy supply. With almost 870 million people chronically undernourished in 2010–12, the number of hungry people in the world remains unacceptably high. The vast majority live in developing countries, where about 850 million people, or slightly fewer than 15 percent of the population, are estimated to be undernourished.
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    Executive Summary of the International Scientific Symposium on Food and Nutrition Security Information, 17 – 19 January 2012
    From valid measurement to effective decision making
    2012
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    The 2012 Symposium brought together nearly 400 practitioners working on issued related to food and nutrition security information. The objectives of the symposium were to: 1) report on progress made in the five methods originally reviewed in the 2002 symposium, with a special focus on FAO’s undernourishment estimates, the use of household income and expenditure data, and questionnaires for measuring people’s experience of food security and hunger. 2) report on innovations in new metrics, particularly in regard to changes in the global and country contexts cited above. 3) move the discourse past information generation per se towards taking a closer look at how to increase the use of that information in decision making for food and nutrition security.

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