Shrinking Commitments

Consider the treatment of the hunger problem, under Millennium Development Goal 1. In the Millennium Declaration of 2000, 191 member states of the UN committed themselves "to halve, by the year 2015, the proportion of the world's people . . . who suffer from hunger." Some have assumed...

In its July 29 special issue on hunger, Nature tells us, "More than one billion people go hungry today, and the vast majority of them are in low-income countries," which is correct. Then they base the entire issue on the idea that in order to solve the hunger problem, "increasing...