Lack of progress in tackling poverty and problems in balancing supply and demand mean fears over how to feed the developing world will persist, a draft G8 farm ministers' paper said on Sunday.
"The Millennium Declaration aimed to halve the proportion of the world population facing poverty and undernourishment by the year 2015," the draft declaration said.
"We are very far from reaching this goal, according to the alarming data provided by the relevant international bodies."
The pledge to ease hunger for millions has been worsened by the financial turmoil while fears about global food security will continue because of price volatility and a tenuous balance between supply and demand, it said.
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