World hunger surged in 2020, with 1 in 10 people on Earth undernourished
- Written by Jessica Eise, Assistant Professor of Social and Environmental Challenges, The University of Texas at San Antonio
References
- ^ CC BY-ND (creativecommons.org)
- ^ disrupted economies, job markets and supply chains (www.bbc.com)
- ^ inflated food prices (www.fao.org)
- ^ annual food security report (sdgs.un.org)
- ^ People who are undernourished (unstats.un.org)
- ^ particularly severe for children (doi.org)
- ^ nations, such as Yemen, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burundi (www.fao.org)
- ^ Food and Agriculture Organizaton’s criteria (www.fao.org)
- ^ famine now looms (www.wfp.org)
- ^ prospects for a full economic rebound (www.worldbank.org)
- ^ moderate or severe food insecurity (www.fao.org)
- ^ they do not consistently have access to the food they need (www.fao.org)
- ^ More than 30% of the world’s population (www.fao.org)
- ^ more likely to die (www.copenhagenconsensus.com)
- ^ face many health and cognitive disadvantages (doi.org)
- ^ their brains and bodies do not grow to their full potential (dx.doi.org)
- ^ recovering from nutritional deficits (dx.doi.org)
- ^ conflict (theconversation.com)
- ^ poverty (theconversation.com)
- ^ climate change (theconversation.com)
- ^ roughly 255 million full-time jobs (www.ilo.org)
- ^ Conflict (africacenter.org)
- ^ and poverty (blogs.worldbank.org)
- ^ and Asia (www.worldbank.org)
- ^ sensitive to heat and extreme weather events (doi.org)
- ^ I fear (jessicaeise.com)
- ^ Sign up for our weekly newsletter (theconversation.com)
Authors: Jessica Eise, Assistant Professor of Social and Environmental Challenges, The University of Texas at San Antonio