It also will require international cooperation to ensure investment in infrastructure and technologyto improve agricultural productivity. However, an estimated 11.9 per cent of the population are still undernourished, Sustainable Development Goal 2 on eradicating hunger by 2030 therefore poses particular challenges in Asia and the Pacific, the most populous region of the world. The estimated proportion of the global population undernourished has fallen to less than 11 per cent of the global total in the period 2014-2016, despite a population increase of nearly 2 billion people globally over the last 25 years, 218 million fewer people now suffer from undernourishment than was the casein 1990.