Un Millennium Development Library: Halving Hunger: It Can Be Done

ISBN-13: 9781844072200 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 272 str.

Nalan Yuksel; Philip Dobie; Pedro Sanchez

Opis

Halving Hunger examines current world progress towards eliminating hunger, and calls for the implementation of seven recommendations in the areas of: political action, national policy reforms, increased agricultural productivity for food insecure farmers, improved nutrition for the chronically hungry, productive safety nets for the acutely hungry, improved rural incomes and markets, and restoration and conservation of natural resources essential for food security. The strategy includes over 40 interventions that poor countries can select and incorporate into individual action plans. Halving hunger is possible if these interventions are implemented effectively in the 133 hunger hotspots, where hunger is most persistent and severe, and where over 70 per cent of the world's 840 million hungry people currently reside.

Spis treści

Foreword -- Task force members -- Preface -- The Task Force on Hunger’s methodology -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Millennium Development Goals -- Executive summary -- 1. The imperatives for reducing hunger -- Defining hunger -- Determinants of hunger -- The social and economic costs of hunger -- Moral and legal foundations for eradicating hunger -- 2. Who is on track or off track to meet the hunger Goal? -- Hunger hotspots—measuring underweight at the subnational level -- Hunger indicator 1—percentage of the population below the minimum level of dietary energy consumption -- Hunger indicator 2—the prevalence of underweight children under five years of age -- Underweight children in Africa -- Underweight children in Asia -- Underweight children in Central Asia and Europe -- Underweight children in Latin America and the Caribbean -- A global view of the prevalence and density of underweight children -- 3. A strategic approach for halving hunger -- Forging a global partnership -- Promoting good governance -- Mainstreaming gender equality -- Adopting a people-centered approach -- Investing in science and technology -- Vulnerability analysis—a tool for setting priorities -- The seven recommendations -- 4. Move from political commitment to action [Recommendation one] -- Background -- Advocate political action to meet intergovernmental agreements -- Strengthen the contributions of donor countries and national -- governments to activities that combat hunger -- Improve public awareness of hunger issues and strengthen advocacy organizations -- Strengthen developing country advocacy organizations that deal with poverty and hunger -- Strengthen accurate data collection, monitoring, and evaluation -- Actions needed to implement recommendation one -- 5. Reform policies and create an enabling environment [Recommendation two] -- Background -- Promote an integrated policy approach to hunger reduction -- Restore the budgetary priority of the agricultural and rural sectors -- Build developing country capacity to achieve the hunger Goal -- Link nutritional and agricultural interventions -- Increase poor people’s access to land and other productive resources -- Empower women and girls -- Strengthen agricultural and nutrition research -- Remove internal and regional barriers to agricultural trade -- Increase the effectiveness of donor agencies’ hunger-related programming -- Create vibrant partnerships to ensure effective policy implementation -- Actions needed to implement recommendation two -- 6. Increase the agricultural productivity of food-insecure farmers [Recommendation three] -- Background -- Improve soil health -- Improve and expand small-scale water management -- Improve access to better seeds and other planting materials -- Diversify on-farm enterprises with high-value products -- Establish effective agricultural extension services -- Actions needed to implement recommendation three -- 7. Improve nutrition for the chronically hungry and vulnerable [Recommendation four] -- Background -- Promote mother and infant nutrition -- Reduce malnutrition among children under age five -- Reduce malnutrition among school-age children and adolescents -- Reduce vitamin and mineral deficiencies -- Reduce infectious diseases that contribute to malnutrition -- Actions needed to implement recommendation four -- 8. Reduce the vulnerability of the acutely hungry through productive safety nets [Recommendation five] -- Background -- Build and strengthen national and local early warning systems -- Build and strengthen the capacity to respond to emergencies -- Invest in productive social safety nets -- Actions needed to implement recommendation five -- 9. Increase incomes and make markets work for the poor [Recommendation six] -- Background -- Invest in and maintain market-related infrastructure -- Develop networks of small rural input traders -- Improve access to financial services for the poor and food-insecure -- Provide and enforce a sound legal and regulatory framework -- Strengthen the bargaining power of the rural and urban poor in labor markets -- Ensure access to market information for the poor -- Promote and strengthen community and farmer associations -- Promote alternative sources of employment and income -- Actions needed to implement recommendation six -- 10. Restore and conserve the natural resources essential for food security [Recommendation seven] -- Background -- Help communities and households restore or enhance natural resources -- Secure local ownership, access, and management rights to natural resources -- Develop natural resource-based “green enterprises” -- Pay poor rural communities for environmental services -- Actions needed to implement recommendation seven -- 11. Implementing the recommendations of the Task Force on Hunger -- Setting priorities for interventions -- Strengthening capacity for scaling up -- Refining national hunger strategies -- Securing financing for implementation -- Implementation at the local level -- Synergistic entry points to overcoming hunger -- Appendix 1. Glossary -- Appendix 2. Papers Commissioned by the Task Force on Hunger -- Appendix 3. Subregional data on underweight prevalence -- Notes -- References.

O autorze

The Millennium Project was commissioned by the UN Secretary-General and supported by the UN Development group, which is chaired by the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme. The report is an independent publication that reflects the views of the members of the Task Force on Hunger, who contributed in their personal capacity.