Strengthening Rural Communities
15th annual report on the state of world hunger
Hunger 2005 argues that the Millennium Development Goal of cutting hunger in half by 2015 is clearly in jeopardy now unless global leaders focus immediate attention on the problems occurring in rural areas, where three of every four undernourished people in the world live.
To significantly reduce the numbers of hungry people in the world, we must look to ways to strengthen rural communities, and global leaders must commit to giving rural development the highest priority.
Hunger 2005 presents clear and convincing evidence that manifold problems plaguing rural development worldwide, including here in the United States, are not intractable. Solutions exist and have been shown to work. Scaling up is what has to happen, and Hunger 2005 shows how it can be done.
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