Enabling poor rural people
to overcome poverty
- There are an estimated 925 million hungry people in the world.
- Around 1.4 billion people live on less than US$1.25 a day.
- The world population is expected to reach 9.1 billion by 2050.
- Food production will need to nearly double by 2050 in developing countries.
- About 40 per cent of the world’s arable land is degraded to some degree and will be further affected by climate change.
- There are about half a billion small farms in the world, supporting around 2 billion people.
- GDP growth generated by agriculture is up to four times more effective in reducing poverty than growth generated by other sectors.
- Poor people spend between 50 and 80 per cent of their income on food.
- Africa nutrition database initiative website
- Committee on Food Security
- Eldis food security resource guide
- Famine early warning system network
- FAO: Food security
- FAO: Household food security and community nutrition
- FIVIMS: Food insecurity and vulnerability information and mapping systems
- Food aid management
- Food and nutrition technical assistance
- Food Security Aid map
- Food security on the development gateway
- InterAction: best practices and Innovations
- International food policy research institute (IFPRI)
- Measurement and assessment of food deprivation and undernutrition
- Network on rural development and food security
- Nutrition Net
- Standing committee on nutrition
- World Food Programme: Vulnerability analysis and mapping (VAM)
- World Health Organization: Global database on child growth and malnutrition
