The bottom line of these abject statistics is that more than 6 million children a year die of causes related to malnutrition. Yet between 1960 and 1990, world cereal production more than doubled, per capita food production increased 37 per cent, daily caloric intake increased 35 per cent, and real food prices fell by almost 50 per cent. Today world food prices are at historic lows.
Food security is achieved when everyone has sufficient food to sustain a healthy and active life.
For individuals, it is determined by how food is shared within the household. Except in time of war, natural disaster or politically imposed famine, food security is now a problem for the poor. The rich do not go to bed hungry at night. Reducing poverty Experience in recent decades has shown that the market-driven approach to development, maintaining an open economy, has been the most effective one for reducing poverty. It has been much more so than a protectionist approach concentrating on import substitution.