[AODA members] Fwd: New information @ ERS - Food Security Assessment, 2006

[Caroline Baum Webber]

FYI

- Caroline Webber
   Kalamazoo, Michigan

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> FOOD SECURITY ASSESSMENT, 2006
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>>  The number of hungry people in the 70 lower income countries covered 
>> in this report rose between 2005 and 2006, from 804 million to 849 
>> million. However, the food distribution gap?an indicator of food 
>> access?declined, which means that, although more people are 
>> vulnerable to food insecurity, the intensity was less in 2006 than in 
>> 2005. By 2016, the number of hungry people is projected to decline in 
>> all regions, except Sub-Saharan Africa. The average nutrition gap, 
>> the indicator of food availability, was 13.5 million tons (grain 
>> equivalent) in 2006 and is expected to increase to 14 million tons by 
>> 2016. Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for 85 percent of this gap, the 
>> low-income countries of Asia for only 14 percent, and the low-income 
>> countries of Latin America and the Caribbean for the remaining 1 
>> percent. The average nutrition gap was much smaller than the 
>> distribution gap, which takes into account unequal purchasing power 
>> within countries. The distribution gap was an estimated 27 million 
>> tons in 2006 for all 70 countries, decreasing to close to 26 million 
>> tons by 2016.
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>> Released Thursday, June 28, 2007
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>> See http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/GFA18/
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