Some 735 million people worldwide faced chronic hunger in 2022, a much higher number than before the COVID-19 pandemic and which threatens progress towards the global goal of ending hunger by 2030. the United Nations (UN) said on Wednesday.
A multi-year upward trend in hunger rates leveled off last year as many countries recover economically from the pandemic, but the war in Ukraine and its pressure on food and energy prices have taken a toll on some of those earnings, the UN said. its annual report on the state of food and nutrition security around the world.
As a result, some 122 million more people went hungry in 2022 than in 2019 and the world is “a long way” from achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goal of ending hunger by 2030, says the relationship. Instead, the assessment projects that 600 million people will be undernourished by 2030.
“We are seeing hunger stabilizing at a high level, which is bad news,” Maximo Torero Cullen, chief economist at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) told Reuters. ).
The main drivers of the global famine in recent years have been the disruption of livelihoods caused by conflict, extreme weather conditions threatening agricultural production and economic hardship exacerbated by the pandemic, the report said.
Some parts of the world have seen hunger decline, including South America and most of Asia. But hunger is on the rise in the Caribbean, West Asia and Africa.
To change the trend, countries need to combine humanitarian aid with strengthening local food supply chains, Kevin Mugenya, director of food systems at Mercy Corps, an international aid group, told Reuters.
“Countries need to have localized solutions,” he said.
The report was compiled by the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development, the Children’s Fund, the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Food Program and FAO.
Source: Terra
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