- Title: Drive to end global hunger has stalled, United Nations warns
- Date: 24th July 2024
- Summary: ROME, ITALY (RECENT - JULY 18, 2024) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) DIRECTOR OF FAO'S AGRIFOOD ECONOMICS DIVISION, DAVID LABORDE, SAYING: “The international aid linked to food security and nutrition, even when you are generous in your accounting system, is $76 billion a year. Now, if you compare it to global GDP, so the global wealth we create every year, it is 0.07%. So
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- Keywords: FAO GLOBAL HUNGER HUNGER ITALY ROME SOFI REPORT UNITED NATIONS FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANISATION
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- Topics: Government/Politics,United Nations
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- Story Text: A goal to eliminate global hunger by 2030 looks increasingly impossible to achieve, with the number of people suffering chronic hunger barely changed over the past year, a U.N. report said on Wednesday (July 24).
The annual State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report said around 733 million people faced hunger in 2023 -- one in 11 people globally and one in five in Africa -- as conflict, climate change and economic crises take their toll.
David Laborde, director of the division within the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) which helps prepare the survey, said that although progress had been made in some regions, the situation had deteriorated at a global level.
"We are in a worse situation today than nine years ago when we launched this goal to eradicate hunger by 2030," he told Reuters, saying challenges such as climate change and regional wars had grown more severe than envisaged even a decade ago.
If current trends continue, about 582 million people will be chronically undernourished at the end of the decade, half of them in Africa, the report warned.
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