Monday, July 13, 2020

UN says more than 130 million people worldwide may go hungry in 2020 due to Covid-19

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UN says more than 130 million people worldwide may go hungry in 2020 due to Covid-19 

From CNN’s Ingrid Formanek and Hira Humayun
A UN report released Monday predicts the Covid-19 pandemic could send more than 130 million people around the world into chronic hunger by the end to 2020.
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) published its latest edition of the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World, which says the pandemic is “intensifying the vulnerabilities and inadequacies of global food systems.”
The report estimates “at a minimum, another 83 million people, and possibly as many as 132 million, may go hungry in 2020 as a result of the economic recession triggered by COVID-19.”
The report also estimates around 690 million people went hungry in 2019 – up by 10 million from the previous year.
Africa is the hardest hit region in terms of percentages, with 19.1% of its people undernourished, according to the report, followed by Asia at 8.3%, and Latin America and the Caribbean at 7.4%.  
With the toll the pandemic is taking on food security, the report says achieving the Sustainable Development Goal of Zero Hunger by 2030 is in question.

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