Food for all: Why better nutrition is a collective task
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IFPRI January 23, 2017 By Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla and Jonathan Hepburn
Just 15 months after governments at the UN agreed a set of bold new global goals on everything from ending poverty and hunger to tackling climate change and insecurity, prospects for global cooperation in a range of areas are looking distinctly dimmer than they did before.
Politicians in different countries are capitalizing on people’s well-founded fears of conflict, terrorism and unemployment, by calling for tough new restrictions on the movement of people, goods and services across national borders.
Some also question basic tenets of international law in areas such as human rights and humanitarian protection, or argue explicitly that it doesn’t matter if their country’s actions cause harm to people living elsewhere.
While some may find the slogans and statements deceptively seductive, recent history suggests this approach is singularly ill-suited to tackling the common problems we face in today’s globalized world.
Environmental threats don’t stop at political borders. And in an increasingly integrated world economy, people’s incomes and quality of life are ever more dependent on those of other people on the opposite side of the planet.
None of which means that "business as usual" is an acceptable option.
National policies and global rules today are still failing too many people, too often. In the wake of the G20 agriculture ministers meeting Berlin Jan. 22 (although certainly the challenge involves more than only agricultural issues) there is an opportunity to revisit how much progress has been made in tackling hunger and malnutrition, as well as to assess the size of the challenge remaining.
With some 200 million fewer people going hungry in recent decades, huge advances have been made in reducing undernourishment.
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