Tackling rural poverty, together

Extract

Halving Hunger examines current world progress towards eliminating hunger, and calls for the implementation of seven recommendations in the areas of: political action, national policy reforms, increased agricultural productivity for food insecure farmers, improved nutrition for the chronically hungry, productive safety nets for the acutely hungry, improved rural incomes and markets, and restoration and conservation of natural resources essential for food security.

Table of contents:

1. The imperatives for reducing hunger
2. Who is on track or off track to meet the hunger Goal?
3. A strategic approach for halving hunger
4. Move from political commitment to action [Recommendation one]
5. Reform policies and create an enabling environment [Recommendation two]
6. Increase the agricultural productivity of food-insecure farmers [Recommendation three]
7. Improve nutrition for the chronically hungry and vulnerable [Recommendation four]
8. Reduce the vulnerability of the acutely hungry through productive safety nets [Recommendation five]
9. Increase incomes and make markets work for the poor [Recommendation six]
10. Restore and conserve the natural resources essential for food security [Recommendation seven]
11. Implementing the recommendations of the Task Force on Hunger