Millions go hungry because of aid pledges unfulfilled.
Like the theory that leaders who attend UN-organized summit meetings follow through on their lofty promises. In preparation for a November conference to appraise the results of the World Food Summit held in 1996, the agency is already projecting that the leaders' goal of halving the world's undernourished population to 400 million by 2015 will not be achieved. In other words, the food supplies are out there but for reasons of inefficient logistics are not reaching those who need them most. Two thirds of the poor living in developing countries are in rural communities. But the families of small farmers are usually among the poorest and least well nourished, FAO points out.