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Why World Hunger Isn't Going Away As Fast As We'd Hoped

There have been decades of progress in the fight against hunger. But the rosy numbers don't tell the whole story.
One of many grocery stores in Venezuela where the shelves are bare. Even in regions such as Latin America that do well overall, there are glaring exceptions, such as Venezuela, where political turmoil has created massive price inflation and food shortages.

Rob Vos has been tracking global hunger for years, and he says until recently the mood among his fellow hunger experts was almost giddy.

Since 1990 the world had made so much progress curbing hunger that, in 2015, leaders met at the United Nations and vowed to eliminate hunger for good by 2030.

"We actually or IFPRI, in Washington, D.C.

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