One of the world's most solvable problems

Calling hunger "one of the world's most solvable problems," the Vatican's representative to the United Nations said that it is "a shame that so many of the poor people in the world continue to find themselves helpless victims of chronic hunger." Archbishop Francis A. Chullikatt, permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, spoke to a U.N. General Assembly meeting on sustainable development goals.

He also described world hunger and malnutrition as "all the more egregious when we grasp the reality that malnutrition remains the world's biggest health risk -- claiming more victims each year than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined."

The archbishop called the lack of access to adequate food and nutrition "a moral and humanitarian crisis exacerbated by manmade policies and practices" such as failing to provide access to markets for producers in developing countries, diverting food resources from consumption to energy production, waste of food resources and armed conflicts.

"In face of the world's hungry, the grotesque spectacle of foodstuffs being forcibly destroyed in order to preserve higher market prices for producers, primarily in developed countries, constitutes a reprehensible practice which prioritizes economic profit over the needs of those starving,"

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Campaign to End World poverty

The Obama Administration has unveiled the United States’ plan for meeting the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals, eight ambitious targets aimed at reducing global poverty and disease by 2015. These targets include cutting extreme poverty in half; reducing by two-thirds the mortality rate for children under age 5; and providing primary and secondary education to all children regardless of gender.
The U.S. plan features four principles for reaching those targets: innovation, sustainability, tracking development outcomes and mutual accountability
The strategy also outlines the elements critical to achieving these principles, according to a report on the plan by ONE, a grassroots campaign and advocacy organization committed to reducing extreme poverty and preventable diseases, particularly in Africa. For example, the plan identifies good governance and broad-based economic growth as critical to achieving sustainable poverty reduction and preserving development gains already achieved. Investing in local capacity to strengthen service delivery is also included as a key component of sustainability, as is the empowerment of women and girls and the mainstreaming of gender into core development efforts.
The plan comes before the United Nations’ meeting on the Millennium Development Goals, planned for September.