ABSTRACT
Food security and hunger are age old problems that endure today. More than 820 million people are chronically undernourished because they are unable to obtain sufficient food by any means. Chronic malnutrition results from a continuously inadequate diet, reducing physical capacity, lowering productivity, stunting growth and inhibiting learning. Over time, chronic malnutrition kills, blinds and debilitates. Yet enough food is produced worldwide to provide adequate food for all. The current global population of some 6 billion people have 15 per cent more food available per capita than had the world’s 3 billion people some four decades ago. After fifty years of substantial economic growth, steady progress in agricultural productivity, remarkable increases in per capita food availability, and numerous international and national efforts to address hunger, food security remains a formidable global problem.
