The world produces enough food to feed 10 billion people. Poverty and hunger prevail because of economics,not scarcityThe greatest challenge for the sustainable development goals (SDGs) is to eradicate poverty and hunger while maintaining sustainable food security for all in a crowded and dramatically unequal world. Although the world has succeeded in reducing poverty in accordance with the millennium development goal (MDG) targets, food security and adequate nutrition possess not been achieved.
The MDGs failed to treat food as a human accurate. Experience shows us that neither markets nor governments protect access to sufficient and nutritious food for everyone. Only accountability by those who produce food and regulate society can hope to achieve this protection, and this means that access to food needs to be treated as a human accurate,and not just as a policy goal or an outcome of a productive economy. Several constitutions and courts in Latin America possess recently moved in this direction by making the accurate to food a legally enforceable accurate, but the international system, or including the UN,still lags behind.
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Source: theguardian.com