Number of people going hungry has risen by 122m since 2019, UN says
by Sarah Johnson from Environment | The Guardian on (#6CXCF)
Covid pandemic and Ukraine war add to widespread crisis with one in nine people in the world facing severe food insecurity in 2022
The number of people going hungry in the world has risen by 122 million to 735 million since 2019 because of the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, the UN has said.
If current trends continue, almost 600 million people will be chronically undernourished by 2030 - about 119 million more than if neither of these events had happened, a new report has found.
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