The U.N. says hunger kills more people every year than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.Despite progress since 1990, it’s estimated more than 840-million people still do not have enough to eat.Nevertheless, the director of the Bread for the World Institute said recent efforts can bring a dramatic improvement.Asma Lateef said that the opportunity exists to tackle hunger on a sustained basis -- and not just address emergency situations.“Well, I think we are in a good space right now.The Bread for the World Institute is a Christian-based organization providing strategies to end world hunger.Lateef said achieving the potential to ensure food security has been a joint effort.“This has been due to a lot of deliberate work on the part of governments around the world,The 1996 U.N. World Food Summit issued the Rome Declaration.It called for reducing by half the number of chronically undernourished people by 2015.However, Lateef said that at the time there was no unified strategy as to how to do that.
