While many countries in the developing world – home to 827 million of the world's undernourished (compared to 838 million in 2010-2012) – have moved toward halving, by 2015, the share of hungry people relative to 1990, the average rate of decline is inadequate to meet the target in the next two years. The more ambitious WFS target of halving the total number of hungry people worldwide is even more distant, with the number of undernourished people having fallen by only 17% since 1990-1992.
Studie s názvem „Stav potravinové nebezpečnosti na světě“ (SOFI 2013) poskytuje aktualizované odhady podvýživy a pokroku při dosahování cílů stanovených pro problematiku hladu Rozvojovými cíli tisíciletí (MDG) a Světovým potravinovým summitem (WFS).