against undernutrition will be tracked by using this new standard. The use of the new reference standard will result in clear … changes in the prevalence and composition of undernutrition. This paper argues that this opportunity should be used to use … fight against hunger. All weight based anthropometric measures, such as underweight and wasting, suffer from the fact that …

challenge, the food price spikes also have created a unique opportunity to address poverty and hunger. …For decades, despite widespread hunger and severe malnutrition in developing countries there was little attention to … funding for it, while global malnutrition has not increased and poverty declined over the past years. Mass media played a …

eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, with the specific goals of halving the proportions of both undernourished and malnourished … millions of families from the desperate cycle of hunger and poverty also had consequences for the environment. Roughly 72% of …Established by the United Nations in 2015 with a target date of 2030, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide …

appears feasible with moderate growth rates and fairly mild pro-poor distributional change. -- income distribution ; poverty …The United Nations Millennium Declaration commits to halving extreme poverty between 2000 and 2015. The South African … government has set a goal of halving poverty by 2014, although the meaning of this goal has not yet been defined. This article …