UN General Assembly
2010

countries, in partnership, now examine rigorously which actions have worked in the fight to end poverty and which can be pursued more effectively. We also need to focus more clearly on key sectors. Since the publication of our Hunger Task Force report two years ago, Ireland has been arguing that a more concerted, comprehensive approach is required to end the continuing crisis of world hunger. The number of chronically hungry people has risen to almost one billion. One in four children in the developing world is undernourished. Failure to address that crisis is undermining progress across the full range of development goals. And yet the means are available, at an affordable cost, to end that scandal. We need to mobilize the political will to do so. Last week, with the United States Secretary of State, I hosted a meeting of international leaders to build a partnership focusing on nutrition in the first one thousand days of life, from pregnancy to two years of age. We recognized and will give our full support to