Nations Urged To Fight Food Insecurity
On Wednesday, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for concerted and quick action to combat a surge in global food insecurity.
The number of severely food insecure people had doubled in two years from 135 million pre-pandemic to 276 million, he said during a U.N. meeting on global hunger.
More than half a million people are experiencing famine conditions — an increase of more than 500% since 2016, he said.
The stark figures are inextricably linked with conflict.
Guterres said “If we do not feed people, we feed conflict.”
The climate emergency is another contributor to global hunger.
Guterres said 1.7 billion people were affected by extreme weather and climate-related disasters over the past decade.
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