However, after a few years, China s farms were collectivized and their productivity improved considerably. Along with collectivization, the Chinese government launched many other projects that contributed to the end of hunger. In 1950, just after the revolution, the IMR was at least 125. Today it is 44. China has created an economic and social miracle that, in the 1930s, was thought unimaginable.
Literacy is widespread, abject poverty is almost unknown.
And this was done for a population of over one billion people. Sri Lanka Sri Lanka is a third country that has ended hunger as a basic issue. It is a success story of development. Sri Lanka s democratic government has committed itself to meeting the basic needs of its people, and has instituted a program to achieve adequate nutrition through a food-subsidy program. Each person receives one to two pounds of rice per week at no charge To achieve food self-sufficiency, Sri Lanka successfully introduced a land reform policy to provide landless laborers with land for subsistence farming.