| Resumen: |
Despite progress in recent decades, including the near achievement of the Millennium Development Goal target
of halving the proportion of hungry people in the world by the end of 2015, about 795 million people –
or around one in nine – still suffer from chronic (dietary energy) undernourishment, or hunger.
The eradication of hunger by 2030 is likely to be a target of the new Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG2) to be
approved in September 2015 at the 70th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. Ending hunger is also in line
with the Zero Hunger Campaign promoted by the UN Secretary-General, and closely linked to the Sustainable
Development Goal 1 target to eliminate poverty by 2030. Governments in various regions have responded to that call
of the UN Secretary-General and have committed to eradicating hunger as a major step towards poverty reduction.
Almost four-fifths of the world’s poor live in rural areas.
To achieve zero hunger (ZH) by 2030, the international community needs to build upon approaches and options
that have proven to be effective, and which ensure continuous access to food for the undernourished, and improve
livelihood opportunities for the poor and hungry. This paper presents new estimates on investments required to
eradicate hunger by 2030.
To estimate the additional investment requirements, we begin with reference to a “baseline” “business as usual”
scenario. In this scenario, around 650 million people would still suffer from hunger, or chronically inadequate dietary
energy, in 2030. We then estimate the investment requirements to eliminate hunger by 2030.
This paper specifically considers how hunger can be eliminated through a combination of social protection and
targeted pro-poor investments. |
