How do the MDGs address hunger and food security?

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) address hunger and food security through various targets and indicators. The specific goals related to hunger and food security are:

1. Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.
- Target 1.A: Halve the proportion of people living on less than $1.25 a day.
- Target 1.B: Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people.
- Target 1.C: Halve the proportion of people who suffer from hunger.

2. Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education.
- Target 2.A: Ensure that all children, boys, and girls alike, complete a full course of primary schooling.

3. Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women.
- Target 3.A: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015.

4. Goal 4: Reduce child mortality.
- Target 4.A: Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate.

5. Goal 5: Improve maternal health.
- Target 5.A: Reduce by three-quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio.

6. Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases.
- Target 6.C: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases.

These goals and targets aim to address hunger and food security by reducing poverty, promoting education, empowering women, improving healthcare, and combating diseases. Additionally, the MDGs emphasize the importance of international cooperation, financial assistance, and technology transfer to support developing countries in achieving these goals.