What are the hunger targets?
There are two main hunger targets: the World Food Summit target and Goal 1 of the Millennium Development Goals. The 1996 World Food Summit target World leaders attending the World Food Summit in Rome committed to cutting by half the number of undernourished people in the world by no later than 2015. FAO uses the average of the period 1990–92 (around 850 million people) as the baseline for monitoring progress towards this target. The World Food Summit target is thus to reduce the number of hungry to around 425 million by 2015. The Millennium Development Goals At the 2000 Millennium Summit held at UN headquarters in New York, world leaders reaffirmed their commitment to reducing hunger. Goal 1 of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) calls for a reduction by half of the proportion of people suffering from hunger between 1990 and 2015. Rather than setting a definite number to be reached, this hunger objective therefore depends on the size of the future world population.
