ABSTRACT
Sustainable Hillside Management Project................ 577 23.5 Results.......................................................................... 582 23.6 Conclusions .................................................................. 587 References............................................................................. 587
23.1 INTRODUCTION
It is estimated that 791 million people in 98 developing countries were undernourished in 1996-1998. They were geographically distributed as follows: 86 million in Sub-Saharan Africa, 36 million in the Near East/North Africa, 55 million in Latin America and the Caribbean, 348 million in China (including Taiwan) and India, and 166 million in other nations of Asia (Food and Agriculture Organization [FAO], 2000).
