Food security and the challenge of the MDGs

In their solemn Millennium Declaration of 2000, world leaders committed themselves to spare no effort to halve, by 2015, the proportion of the world’s people who suffer from poverty and hunger. Just seven years remain for us to meet that momentous challenge. Having passed the halfway mark in the race against hunger, the most important lesson we have learned is that it can still be won; however, a much greater and more sustained effort will be required of us.