ABSTRACT
The reduction of hunger and food insecurity worldwide is a matter of great urgency. The number of hungry people today is higher than in 1996 when world leaders at the World Food Summit set the target to reduce the number of hungry by half by 2015. Though the prevalence of hunger in terms of undernourishment has declined significantly over the past decades, the number of hungry people rose to 906 million in 2010 (FAO 2010a).
