‘Feed the world’ project needs to get back on track

NEXT week, world leaders will gather in New York for the 10th anniversary of the UN millennium development goals.

With the number of hungry people in the world at a record high of more than one billion, the promises to halve the proportion of hungry people and child malnutrition by 2015 remain significantly off track.

The number of hungry people in the world has been growing, made substantially worse by the food price and financial crises.