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Environment | April 1, 2003| | Copyright

This past summer, delegates from 179 countries and the European Commission convened in Rome to review progress toward a pledge, adopted at the World Food Summit in 1996 (http://www.fao.org/worldfoodSummit/), to reduce the number of hungry people to about 400 million by 2015. Although there has been substantial progress toward this target since that summit, the most recent assessment by the Food and Agriculture Organization (http://www.fao.org/docrep/005/y7352e/y7352e00.htm) states that "only 23 countries in the developing world are on pace to achieve the World Food Summit ...

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