Food for All: Can Hunger Be Halved?

Report by the Panos Institute examines why there are still nearly 800 million people in the world suffering from chronic hunger and argues that existing trade agreements may be undermining the poorest countries' efforts to boost rural development and reduce poverty and hunger.

The report looks at the barriers to providing enough food for each person in the world. It points out that although food production overall has risen in the past few decades, the rate of increase is levelling off and growing the extra food that is needed over the next few decades will be a severe challenge, as there is little additional land and water available. There is increasing consensus that most hungry people are hungry because of poverty, not because too little food has been produced, and the report asks whether trade liberalisation is helping or hindering the world in feeding its people.

Printed copies available free to media and resource-poor non-governmental organisations - contact Kelly Hawrylyshyn kellyh@panoslondon.org.uk to order.

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