Under the Millennium Development Goals, hunger was one of the areas where we failed. There are still nearly 800 million hungry people. Yes, we reduced the proportion of people without adequate food because the global population continues to rise, but we made little headway in cutting the numbers affected. Part of the problem was higher food prices after 2008. Thankfully, they have begun to come down, but we need to do more to help poor people feed themselves and, in particular, to prevent malnutrition among young children