Family Farming: Accomplishments and Next Steps
Family Farming: Accomplishments and Next Steps
By
Eve Crowley
In the past 20 years, Latin America and the Caribbean have seen the most dramatic decline in malnutrition of any developing region. The percentage of undernourished people in the region has fallen by almost two-thirds since the early 1990s, and currently stands at 6.1 percent. The region has not only met the UN Millenium Development Goal (MDG) 1.C—reducing by half the proportion of undernourished people between 1990 and 2015—it is close to achieving the more challenging World Food Summit target of halving the absolute number of undernourished people.
As the UN’s International Year...
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