{"id":25263,"date":"2022-07-13T16:47:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T15:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/?p=25263"},"modified":"2022-07-22T15:14:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T14:14:10","slug":"world-is-going-backwards-in-ending-hunger-says-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/world-is-going-backwards-in-ending-hunger-says-un\/","title":{"rendered":"The World is going Backwards in Ending Hunger: UN Food Security Report"},"content":{"rendered":"
A new UN food security report shows we have lost ground in efforts to world end hunger.<\/p>\n
In 2021, up to 828 million people in the world were affected by hunger. This is an increase of 46 million people on the previous year. Africa is bearing the heaviest burden. One in five people on the African continent were affected by hunger in 2021.<\/p>\n
The largest increase in global hunger also occurred in Africa. The COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and other factors reversed decades of progress.<\/p>\n
These were among the alarming findings of a new UN food security report. \u2018The State of Food Security and Nutrition in The World 2022<\/a>\u2019 found key measures of global food security to be off track. Around 8% of the world’s population could be facing hunger by 2030. This is the same year set as the target to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)<\/a> including Zero Hunger. <\/p>\n Other key findings of the UN food security report included:<\/p>\n \u25cf Almost 3.1 billion people could not afford a healthy diet in 2020, 112 million more than the year before.<\/p>\n \u25cf Around 2.3 billion people were moderately or severely food insecure in 2021 – 350 million more people than in 2019.<\/p>\n \u25cf The gender gap in food insecurity grew in 2020 due to the pandemic. This gap increased even further in 2021, primarily in Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia.<\/p>\n Major drivers behind recent food insecurity and malnutrition trends, including climate change, economic shocks and conflict, alongside Covid-19, have all intensified recently.<\/p>\nHow did we get here? <\/h2>\n