Will World Hunger Ever be Eliminated?
So is it all bad news?

The good news is that poverty is in decline - the last half-century saw a greater decrease than the previous five combined. As a result, the percentage of malnourished has fallen by a third since 1960 . Also, a 1997 United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report has estimated the cost of eradicating poverty at a mere one per cent of global income , about $80 billion.

Significantly, governments actually have a moral duty to help, something most recently reiterated by world leaders at the 1998 World Food Summit in Rome. This moral duty to rid the world of hunger is enshrined in article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UNHR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) of 1966 which declare that every human being has the right to sufficient food.

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