Inside Asia Pacific - Combating Hunger: A Seven Point Agenda

The Asia Pacific region has virtually eliminated the prospect of famine, but is haunted by hunger, with some of the fastest growing countries in the region hardly making a dent on hunger. As the co-chairs of the United Nations Thematic Working Group on Poverty and Hunger, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (FAO-RAP) and the UNDP Regional Centre in Colombo (UNDP RCC) are launching a year long campaign to build constituency for much needed policy reform. This bulletin signifies the launch of this extensive hunger campaign, based on a seven point coalition of process, partnership and policy.

The Seven Point Agenda to combat hunger consists of:

Targeted interventions, such as school feeding programmes
Judging development outcomes through hunger impact
Reviving public investment in agriculture
Building a national and global coalition
Making primary education mandatory
Providing relief to poor consumers for staple foods
Rebuilding global food policy, including increasing investment in international research institutes