As SOFI 2013 points out, progress toward eradicating hunger and undernourishment has slowed since 2000, when food prices began to rise, following almost a half-century of decline. Although rapid economic growth has boosted per capita incomes in much of the developed world, income gains are not spread evenly, leaving hundreds of millions of people to face higher food prices without sufficient increases in income.
千年发展目标的进展状况很不均衡。尽管营养不良人口占8.27亿的众多发展中国家（2010-2012年这一数字为8.38亿）到2015年可能实现饥饿人口占比较1990年减半，但平均下降速度距两年后实现目标还相去甚远。世界粮食首脑会议全球饥饿人口减半的宏伟目标更加遥不可及， 1990-1992年来只减少了17%的营养不良人口。