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Science 21 January 2005:
Vol. 307. no. 5708, pp. 357 - 359
DOI: 10.1126/science.1109057
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Policy Forum

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PUBLIC HEALTH:
Enhanced: Cutting World Hunger in Half

Pedro A. Sanchez and M. S. Swaminathan

To reach the Millennium Development Goal of halving hunger by 2015, the Millennium Project's Task Force on Hunger recommends seven mutually reinforcing actions: political action; national policy reforms; increased agricultural productivity for food-insecure farmers; improved nutrition for the chronically hungry; productive safety nets for the acutely hungry; improved rural incomes and markets; and restored natural resources essential for food security. The Task Force concludes that "it can be done"-the Hunger MDG can be attained. In this Policy Forum, the task force chairmen explain why achieving that goal will require unprecedented levels of effort, but it is well within the reach of our technical and financial capabilities.

P. A. Sanchez is at the Earth Institute at Columbia University, New York, NY 10964, USA. E-mail: sanchez {at}iri.columbia.edu; M. S. Swaminathan chairs the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Taramani, Chennai 600 113, India. E-mail: msswami{at}mssrf.res.in. The authors cochair the U.N. Millennium Project Task Force on Hunger.

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