We also have ongoing pressures of population growth,
climate disruption, lack of equity in the distribution of food,
and resource depletion of non-renewables.
Looking at a global perspective on the problem of feeding the world,
we see that there are a large, large number of people who are subsisting,
barely subsisting, on less than a $1.25 a day.
They're concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa and in southern Asia.
If you look at the light blue bar, I chose the status of poverty in 1990.
The dark blue bar, 2005, and the millennium targets for
2015, are the yellow lines embedded in the dark blue bar on the bottom.
I have to draw your attention to the fact that it looks as
though Sub-Saharan Africa has the largest number of people living in poverty.
They have the largest proportion of their population living in poverty, but for
sheer numbers, India with its current population of almost 1.4 billion people,
in fact has more than 50% of all people living in the world
in abject poverty, meaning resources of less than $1.25 a day.
These data from 2005 show that we have a long way to go before reaching
the Millennium Development Report targets for 2015 just around the corner.