More than 258 million people across 58 countries faced severe hunger in 2022, the highest rate of food insecurity in the last seven years, according to a new United Nations-led report. Fallout from Russia's war in Ukraine, local conflict, climate change and the economic impacts of COVID-19 — including high inflation, the report found — were the major drivers of hunger.
Malnutrition threatens the lives of half a million Yemeni children
Still, despite these challenges, many critics say food insecurity at this scale is largely avoidable. Acute food insecurity means people are in dire need of food, nutrition and livelihood assistance. The report’s authors say that competing priorities with crises taking place all over the world often leave resources thin, which results in issues like hunger, particularly in poorer countries, growing increasingly dire over time.
People in seven countries – Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Haiti, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen – faced starvation at some point last year.
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