This report on the world hunger situation warns that many countries are going backwards on crucial hunger pledge, with more people under-nourished than a decade ago. In this scorecard China, ranked second out of the developing countries.

This September, leaders are gathering in New York to assess progress on the UN’s Millennium Development Goals for halving extreme poverty and hunger by 2015. On hunger, the MDGs commit leaders to reducing by half the proportion of people who are undernourished and the proportion of children who are underweight. These targets are, quite literally, a matter of life and death for the one billion people who struggle on a daily basis to avoid starvation.