it also will require international cooperation to ensure investment in infrastructure and technologyto improve agricultural productivity however an estimated per cent of the population are still undernourished sustainable development goal on eradicating hunger by therefore poses particular challenges in asia and the pacific the most populous region of the world the estimated proportion of the global population undernourished has fallen to less than per cent of the global total in the period despite a population increase of nearly billion people globally over the last years million fewer people now suffer from undernourishment than was the casein