A lack of sound agricultural policies by nations is the major drawback to achieving global food security. Food security according to the November 1996 world food submit plan for Action exists when all people at all times have access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary need and food preferences for an active and healthy life. However, the reports, published last November, draw attention to agriculture with a caseload of good news stories on improving food security. The report by the food and agricultural organization titled “Pathways to Success” looks at initiative that have improve food security and new measure taken in the last year’s global recession. The united states-based international food policy research Institute uses it book, “Million Fed” to look at a mix food security success stories over a period of years many which are driven by non-governmental organizations and communities.

The 2008 food price crisis and the world growing population have brought food security to the top of international agenda.

An earlier FAO {Food and Agricultural Organization} had noted that farmers would need to feed a projected population of 9.1 billion in 2050. The key regions that require urgent action to reduce food insecurity and build adaptation capacity, the report said then, were central, East and West Africa, many countries in southwest Asia, the highlands in south America and certain region of central America and the carribear, However, the pathway to success which is an indepth look at 16 countries that have made some headway in reducing the number of hungry people, says the grim global figures hide the fact that the number of hungry people has been declining during the fifteen years period from 1991-2005. infact the report explains that among the 79 countries whose food security status is monitored regularly by FAO, 31 countries exhibited a trend decline in the number of undernourished during the period. Of these, it notes that, eight have already halved both the proportion and number of undernourished, this achieving both the MDG and world food submit target for 2015. Five have achieved just the MDG target, and three other are on track to achieve both targets by 2015. The report analyses for examples of countries that are on track to achieve 2015 food security targets: Nigeria, America, Brazil and Vietnam, Based on these examples, therefore the study argues that success in the battle to halve hunger will usually be characterized by creation of an environment for economic growth and human well being, outreach to the most vulnerable and investment in the rural poor, protection of grains and planning for a sustainable future.