October: Month of Food Security - Food Security (Factsheet)

Produced for the pubic campaign on the European Year for Development website, the 2-page new factsheet on Food security, designed for a public audience, provides an overview of the importance of food security world-wide and what the EU is doing to address this issue.

For example, did you know that:

• 84 % of EU citizens consider that the EU should help other countries improve their food security.

• Worldwide 800 million people do not have access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food.

• Hidden hunger, also called micronutrient defi ciency, aff ects some 2 billion people around the world.

• Worldwide 161 million children suff er from stunting as a result of chronic undernutrition. Of these children,

some 3.1 million die each year.

• Food production will need to rise by 70 % to feed the almost 10 billion people living in the world by 2050.

• The importance of addressing food security in the new Global Goals for Sustainable Development

has been recognised with a specifi c goal, SDG 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition

and promote sustainable agriculture.