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The global hunger situation has not improved and one in eleven people faced hunger in 2023, UN agencies said in a joint report, calling for immediate action.
The situation is disparate, but the goal of a world without hunger in 2030, adopted by the United Nations in 2015, is moving even further away. The number of people going hungry increased in Africa, stabilized in Asia and declined in Latin America and the Caribbean, says a joint report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Agriculture (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), UNICEF, the World Food Program (WFP) and the World Health Organization (WHO).
“Overall, chronic food insecurity has been increasing since 2016-2017,” underlines to AFP David Laborde, economist at the FAO and one of the authors of this report entitled “The state of food insecurity and nutrition in the world”.
2.3 billion people are food insecure
The situation worsened significantly with Covid, in 2020 and 2021, and the share of the population not having sufficient caloric intake to lead a normal life has since remained at the same level.
Around 2.3 billion people are also considered to be moderately or severely food insecure, that is to say having to skip a meal occasionally. And more than a third of the world’s population cannot afford a healthy diet, including 72% of people in the poorest countries.
“Many donors have suspended their aid to the Sahel due to geopolitical developments in the area, even though the populations there are in great need of it,” David Laborde also illustrates.
The report also recommends developing financial instruments combining public and private funds in order to encourage private actors to invest in food security, a source of productivity and political stability, by limiting their risks. “There is no time to lose as the cost of inaction far exceeds the cost of the actions this report calls for,” the document concludes.
