World Food Policy Volume 2, Number 1, Spring 2015 | Page 104

Advancing Health Promoting Food Systems

perspective across all regions. The AsiaPacific region has over half of the world’s
population and almost two thirds of the
world’s population living with chronic
hunger (UN ESCAP 2013). The number
of undernourished people has increased
by 20 percent in sub-Saharan Africa since
1990 (Hammond and Dube 2013).

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depends on agriculture and associated
industries for their livelihoods (FAO
2009), the current global, industrial system
is undermining local farming systems
in high- and low-income countries alike
(McCullough, Pingali, and Stamoulis
2008; Lyson, Stevenson, and Welsh 2008;
Keleman 2