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State of Food Security and Nutrition in Small Island Developing States (SIDS)

Year of publication 2016

Pages 8p.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The most recent data of FAO indicates that many of the SIDS Islands have achieved undernourishment levels of less than 5 percent, Barbados, Cuba and Dominica in the Caribbean; Fiji, Samoa and Kiribati in the Pacific. Countries such as: Dominican Republic, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Cuba from the Caribbean; Samoa from the Pacific; and São Tomé e Príncipe from the Africa, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean and South China Sea (AIMS) are among the 29 nine countries in the world to achieve both the Millennium Development Goal 1 target and the World Food Summit Goal during the period of 1990 to 2015. Other countries such as: Fiji, Kiribati, Maldives and Salomon Islands have achieved the MDG1 target. Two countries have an undernourishment rate higher than 20 percent: Guinea-Bisseau with 20.7 percent and Haiti with 53.4 percent being special cases in SIDS.

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