The number of people affected by hunger globally rose to as many as828 millionin 2021, an increase of about46 millionsince 2020 and150 millionsince the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic (1), according to a United Nations report that provides fresh evidence that the world is moving further ...
The report said Africa is hardest hit by under-nourishment, with nearly 20 percent of the population suffering from hunger. In western Asia, hunger is on the rise, with more than 12 percent of the population impacted. Hunger is also becoming more common in Latin America and the Caribbean, w...
UNITED NATIONS, April 24 (Xinhua) - Dangerous levels of acute hunger affected a staggering 281.6 million people last year - the fifth year in a row that food insecurity has worsened, UN agencies warned on Wednesday. According to the latest Global Report on Food Crises, more than one in five...
Around one-tenth of the global population, between 720 million and 811 million people, were undernourished last year, according to a UN report published Monday. Global hunger levels have skyrocketed because of conflict, climate change and the economic impact of COVID-19, and one ...
A United Nations report says last year saw a “dramatic worsening” of world hunger, much of that likely linked to the pandemic. The Associated Press Residents of Oworonshoki Slum carry their food parcels distributed by the Lagos Food Bank Initiative, a non-profit nutrition focused initiative ...
Climate change: ‘Extreme weather is daily destroying lives and livelihoods’, says global body We risk losing the race to save our glaciers and to rein in sea level rise, World Meteorological Organisation report warns ByKevin O'SullivanThu Nov 30 2023 - 11:29 ...
Around 149 million of the world's children currently suffer from hunger-related growth delays. At the same time, the UN report notes that obesity and excess weight are both on the rise in all regions, with school-age children and adults particularly affected. ...
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Extreme weather events were a leading cause of global hunger rising last year, with women, babies, and old people particularly vulnerable to the worsening trend, a UN report said Tuesday. Increasingly frequent shocks such as extreme rainfall or temperatures, as well as droughts, storms, and flood...
“Without increased efforts, there is a risk of falling far short of achieving the SDG target of hunger eradication by 2030,” the report said, referring to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, adopted by member nations in 2015. It was the third year in a row that global hunger levels hav...