The State Of World Hunger

The latest FAO report highlights the persistent issue of world hunger, with Africa facing the most significant challenges. Despite progress in some regions, hunger rates are projected to rise in Africa by 2030.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) released its most recent report for 2022, which said that at least 735 million people suffered from hunger.

And nowhere is the problem more widespread than on the African continent, as Martin Armstrong of Statista says. About 61 percent of the population there, by FAO's assessment, was either severely (no food stores, complete days without food) or moderately (not enough money for good food, challenges with self-sufficiency, having to skip meals) food insecure. This is 9.4 percentage points greater than in 2017 and 4.9 points higher than in the year of the first Covid epidemic.

Due to "an unequal pattern of economic recovery among countries and unrecovered income losses among those most affected ...

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