by Vandana Shiva, South African Civil Society Information Service, South Africa - Last week more than 140 countries met at the UN, to track progress on achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). There are more than one billion hungry people worldwide. A key target of the UN is to end world poverty and hunger, amongst other goals.India has some of the highest rates of growth, and yet it also has some of the highest growth rates of hunger and poverty. India has a million children under the age of five dying from hunger every year.