Help eliminate hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition
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Nonetheless, despite progress over the past 20 years, 821 million people are suffering from chronic hunger.
Among children, 155 million people under the age of 5 are estimated to be chronic malnutrition (dysplasia). The lack of micronutrients or "hidden starvation" affects more than 2 billion people around the world, interferes with the development of human beings and socioeconomics, falling into malnutrition and an underdeveloped vicious circle. At the same time, over 600 million people are obese.
In addition to the ethical aspect of this complex problem, human social, social and economic costs as society as a whole are due to a decline in productivity, a decrease in health, happiness, learning ability, and a reduction in human possibility It is huge.
Over the past two decades, world leaders have promised to reduce hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition with high level activities. Recently at the Rio + 20 Summit, the UN Secretary General has asked all development partners to accept "zero hanger challenge". However, in order to drastically reduce the hunger of the world, we need to convert these pledges into implementation of policies and programs and mobilization of appropriate resources.
FAO is working together with the government, civil society, the private sector and other development partners to promote political commitment and accountability, to improve capacity at all levels, and to eradicate hunger and all forms of malnutrition Focus on mobilizing funds
In order to achieve food security it is necessary to tackle the appropriate aspects of the problem, such as food supply, access, stability and use. Likewise, good nutrition depends on effective action in all areas, such as improving access to diverse diet, appropriate care and feeding method, proper health and hygiene. Given this complex challenge participation, transparency, fairness and accountability are important principles as progress depends on effective governance systems and the involvement of many stakeholders in all areas.
At the world level, the World Food Security Committee (CFS) provides a single platform for food security governance. At the regional, national and local levels, it is necessary to develop and coordinate sectoral policies and programs to ensure proper and targeted actions to eradicate hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition.
Fluctuating food prices, degradation of natural resources, globalization, urbanization, climate change are just a few of today's major food security challenges. Strengthening governance mechanisms and effective coordination among departments brings real changes.
World hunger is to bring starvation at the world level. Related terms include food insecurity and malnutrition. Food insecurity means that access to safe and nutritious food is limited or unreliable (National Research Council, 2006). Malnutrition is a disease caused by inappropriate ingestion of essential biological nutrients (National Research Council, 2006). Malnutrition includes overnutrition and malnutrition, but the focus of global starvation is malnutrition
Food insecurity is part of the continuum including starvation (food shortage), malnutrition (deficiency, imbalance or overnutrition) and famine. The long-term lack of food security will ultimately lead to hunger. This is defined by the US Department of Agriculture as "personal physiological conditions that may be caused by food insecurity". Even in the case of chronic food insecurity, the definition of famine is very specific, so the United Nations rarely publishes the status of famine. The announcement of "famine response", the acute malnutrition rate exceeds 30%, the death rate per 10,000 per day exceeds 2. "Mysterious nutrition may be caused by food insecurity, but it may be caused by poor health, poor parenting, or unhealthy conditions.
The stage of food insecurity is from food security to total famine. "Hunger and starvation are rooted in food insecurity, food insecur