According to the
International Food Policy Research Institute the world is doing an increasingly good job of reducing hunger and extreme poverty. I am sure that we can find plenty of differences of opinion as to how that feat is being accomplished. My money is on smallholders getting better access to nitrate fertilizer and improved varieties of staple crops like wheat and rice. Better productivity near where food is consumed reduces waste, price, and spoilage in transit while increasing local revenue and the percentage of food consumed.
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| World Food Security Overview in 1990 |
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| World Food Security Overview in 2014 |
Source for the above maps
http://www.ifpri.org/tools/2014-ghi-map
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