Center for Global and Immigrant Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772, USA.
Asia Pac J Public Health. 2010 Jul;22(3 Suppl):246S-253S. doi: 10.1177/1010539510373001.
The Millennium Development Goals stated an ambition to cut severe poverty and hunger in half by the year 2015. The recent rise in staple food prices and global economic crisis make it clear that these goals will not be met and that recent gains in mitigating malnutrition are being erased. The number of malnourished people has increased to more than 1 billion, from approximately 800 million a few years ago. National responses have included restrictions on food exports and a rise in the practice of foreign investment in agriculture to ensure food security on the part of countries with limited land and/or water to feed their own populations. There are critical needs to increase production yet again and to protect the interests of the poor. The world's population will stabilize by mid-century but the quality of that half-century depends on political will, technological capacity, and commitment.
千年发展目标提出了到 2015 年将贫困人口和饥饿人口减半的目标。最近主食价格的上涨和全球经济危机表明，这些目标将无法实现，而且最近在减轻营养不良方面取得的成果正在被抹去。营养不良人口的数量已经从几年前的约 8 亿增加到 10 多亿。各国的应对措施包括限制粮食出口，以及增加外国对农业的投资，以确保土地和/或水资源有限的国家的粮食安全，以养活本国人口。现在迫切需要再次增加粮食产量，保护贫困人口的利益。世界人口将在本世纪中叶稳定下来，但这半个世纪的质量取决于政治意愿、技术能力和承诺。
