… and why we lack the political will to do somethng about it. “Across the world an estimated 842 million people are today undernourished – and that figure is again climbing, with an additional 5 million hungry people every year. The figures, says the report by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) ‘signal a setback in the war on hunger’. The prospect of cutting by half the number of people who go hungry – the target set by the world’s governments in 1996 – looks ‘increasingly remote’.

The shocking thing about this is that, in the world of the politics of aid, at any rate, nobody is shocked.” —Indelendent.UK