Recent estimates place the number of undernourished people around one billion, the vast majority of whom live in developing countries. Through the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) the global community pledged to reduce the number of hungry people by half, by 2015. Progress towards meeting this target has been uneven. WFP’s ability to end long-term hunger is shaped by both external and internal factors, including short-term crises. The global economic context interacts with domestic forces to influence the effect of the interventions. Climate change and natural disasters, in affecting domestic agricultural production, affect domestic food prices and food access. Civil strife and prevalence of disease can also affect food production, access to food and use of food at the household level.
Three WFP activities were identified as contributing to ending long-term hunger: Mother and Child Health and Nutrition (MCHN), School Feeding (SF), and Food for Work/Food for Assets (FFW/A). They contribute respectively to better nutrition and health, improved education, and community assets for poverty reduction. Goals under Strategic Objectives 4 and 5 of the 2008-2013 Strategic Plan relate to breaking the intergenerational cycle of chronic hunger, increasing education and basic nutrition, meeting the food needs of those with disease, and strengthening national capacity to reduce hunger.
Several definitions exist for hunger, undernutrition and food security. For the purpose of the evaluation the following working definitions were used:
1. Hunger is a condition in which people lack the required macro and micronutrients;
2. Undernutrition is the physical manifestation of hunger;
3. Food Security is vulnerability or susceptibility to hunger.
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WFP
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Bulletin or Poster
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Keywords:
FOOD, FOOD AID, FOOD SECURITY, FOOD RESERVES, FOOD STOCKS, FOOD PRESERVATION, FOOD HYGIENE, FOOD CONTAMINATION, FOOD CONSUMPTION, NUTRITION, NUTRITION EDUCATION, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, HEALTH, HUNGER, POVERTY, FOOD ASSISTANCE, STAKEHOLDERS, HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
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Thematic Group:
WFP
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Food and Emergency humanitarian logistict support
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Thesaurus:
10.01.00
- Food And Nutrition
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