All the Wrong Hunger Targets Owen Barder with the Center for Global Development pegs it when he points to the errors in policymakers' approaches to global hunger. The target of his observations is the G-8, which is expected to make ending hunger the focus of its meeting in the UK next year. Barder makes the following useful points:Agricultural Productivity: Policymakers focus on boosting agricultural productivity in poor countries, but most people escape poverty by leaving agriculture, not by becoming more productive farmers. People are hungry because they are poor, not because there is too little food production.Food Nutrition: Stunting and other maladies of the poor are rarely about insufficient food but rather insufficient micro-nutri...

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