Today ,more than 800 million people in the world are hungry. At the 1996 World Food Summit, the United States and 185 other countries pledged to reduce the number of undernourished people by half by 2015. The United States adopted an even broader commitment as a domestic goal , and is developing a target forreducing food insecurity in the United States through the Healthy People 2010 Initiative.
WHO Global Nutrition Policy Review 2009-2010