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Eradicating Hunger Quickly: Scaling up Hunger Free Programs

Eradicating Hunger Quickly: Scaling up Hunger Free Programs. Jos é Graziano Da Silva Beijing, October 2007. LATIN AMERICA : TRENDS IN POVERTY AND INDIGENCE, 1990-2006 (Percentages).

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Eradicating Hunger Quickly: Scaling up Hunger Free Programs

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  1. Eradicating Hunger Quickly: Scaling up Hunger Free Programs José Graziano Da Silva Beijing, October 2007

  2. LATIN AMERICA : TRENDS IN POVERTY AND INDIGENCE, 1990-2006 (Percentages) After stagnating in 1997-2002, poverty and indigence rates have fallen sharply in recent years, yet the percentage of people living in poverty is still close to the 1980 figure. Source: ECLAC, on the basis of special tabulations of data from national household surveys.

  3. LATIN AMERICA: POVERTY AND INDIGENCE, 1990-2006 (Millions of people) Between 2002 and 2005, the number of poor and indigent population declined by 12 and 16 million persons. This might show a change in trend, but now there are still more poor people than in 1980. Source: ECLAC, on the basis of special tabulations of data from national household surveys.

  4. Reasons for the progress made towards the target: higher growth, increasing employment and rising per capita social expenditure LAC (21 COUNTRIES): SOCIAL EXPENDITURE AS A PERCENTAGE OF GDP IN 1990-1991, 1996-1997 AND 2002-2003 (Percentages) Source: ECLAC, on the basis of special tabulations of data from national household surveys.

  5. World Map Gini coefficient Gini index map from WorldPolicy.org

  6. Undernourishment in figures Source: FAO SOFI 2006

  7. Target 2015 The number of people suffering from undernourishment declined from 59 to 52 million between 1990 and 2002-2004. Even so, projections indicate that 40 million people will still be undernourished in 2015. Source: FAO 2006

  8. Statistics on Undernourishment and malnutrition for Latin America and Caribbean Source: a/ Datos de Food Security Statistic 2007 FAO b/Este índice se calculó como la razón entre la oferta de energía alimentaria (Kca/persona/día) y el requerimiento mínimo promedio per-capita (2200 kca/persona/día). Valores mayores a 1 significa superávit y menores a 1 déficit.

  9. Chronic child undernourishment in LAC 9 millions of children Source: UNICEF 2006

  10. A country case: Hunger Zero,Brazil Lessons learned: 1. Emergency=Conditional Cash Transfers -Bolsa Familia 2. Promoting small-scale agriculture 3. Eradicating hunger; emergency program; food security; legal and policy framework 4. Combine emergency actions with structural changes

  11. Fome Zero 5. Territorial approach needs concrete actions at national, provincial and local level 6. Local, regional and national coordination 7. Social participation in the monitoring of the programmes 8. Interface with press and other media 9. Allocation of necessary public resources 10. Monitoring and evaluation

  12. Recommendations 1. Have an all-embracing goal: Everybody is affected. State Policy 2. Mobilize multiple stakeholders 3. Link hunger eradication with social stability & economic growth 4. Unique beneficiary data base 5. Link conditional cash transfers with schemes to support small-scale agriculture

  13. Conclusions 1. Eradicating hunger required to meet the MDGs and accelerate progress towards social cohesion 2. Hunger eradication should be the first priority of a wide programme of poverty alleviation

  14. Conclusions cont 3. Political commitment needs a clear goal to eradicate hunger 4. Eradicating hunger demands State Policy and not only government action 5. Eradication child undernourishment by 2015 may be an appropriate intermediate goal for LAC

  15. CONFERENCE ON “TAKING ACTION FOR THE WORLD’S POOR AND HUNGRY PEOPLE” José Graziano Da Silva Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean Food And Agriculture Organization, FAO Beijing, China- Octubre 17-19, 2007

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