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Food production per capita has globally increased in the last decades. Has hunger decreased accordingly?

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Key policy documents identified for susane 2008:

• Thematic strategy on the sustainable use of natural resources: COM(2005) 670.
• Development of agri-environmental indicators for monitoring the integration of environmental concerns into the common agricultural policy: COM(2006) 508.
• Integration of environment into EU agriculture policy - the IRENA indicator-based assessment report, EEA report 2/2006.
• The European renewed sustainable development strategy