28 Million More People Facing Hunger, Report Says
28 Million More People Facing Hunger, Report Says
Another 28 million people, to say the least, are facing Emergency Phase 4 level of acute food insecurity which began in 2020.
The implication is that they are one step away from starvation – across 38 countries/territories where urgent action saved lives and livelihoods, and prevented famine spreading.
Thirty-nine countries/territories have experienced food crises during the five years that the GNAFC has been publishing its annual report; in these countries/territories, the population affected by high levels of acute food insecurity Phase 3 or worse increased from 94 to 147 million people between 2016 and 2020.
May 06, 2021
A mother prepares food for her children with cereal she received from a World Food Programme (WFP) distribution site in Maiduguri, Nigeria. Courtesy photo
NEW YORK At least 155 million people faced crisis levels of food insecurity in 2020 because of conflict, extreme weather events and economic shocks linked in part to COVID-19, a UN-partnered flagship report said on Wednesday.
It’s been five years since hunger levels were this bad across 55 countries under review, according to the Global Network Against Food Crises (GNAFC), which noted that 20 million more people went hungry last year than in 2019.
Countries in Africa remained “disproportionally affected”, it said, adding that conflict pushed almost 100 million people into acute food insecurity, followed by economic shocks (40 million) and weather extremes (16 million).
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The Global Network Against Food Crises (GNAFC), in cooperation with several UN agencies, Wednesday, released its annual report on hunger in the world. The balance at the global level is bleak: 155 million people needed humanitarian aid due to the food crises that affected 55 countries in 2020. That is some 20 million more people . . .
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Published May 6, 2021, 3:20 PM
ROME, Italy Conflicts, economic crises and extreme weather conditions pushed the number of people who faced acute food insecurity to 155 million in 2020, the highest figure in five years, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and other agencies said here on Wednesday.
FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu has called for “addressing the root causes of acute hunger, and for making agri-food systems more efficient, resilient, sustainable and inclusive.”
The situation was described in the “2021 Global Report on Food Crises” issued by the Global Network Against Food Crises (GNAFC), an international alliance bringing together the UN’s FAO and World Food Program (WFP), the European Union (EU), governmental agencies and no-profit organizations.