#World hunger

The World Food Programme announced the new 2024 report.  I last wrote about this project in 2021. Progress?  Not this year. As Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres says in his introduction, “Humanity can and must do better.” Yes, but how? Advocate!  Protest! Insist!

The first line in this report says it all: “This Global Report on Food Crises is a roll call of human failings.” It does not get cheerier: “In 2023, 281.6 million people, or 21.5 percent of the analyzed population faced high levels of acutte food insecurity in 59 food-crisis

FAO and other UN agencies. released the 2022 edition of The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI). Here’s the video that comes with it: A Tale of Empty Plates. The report does not mince words: This year’s report should dispel any lingering doubts that the world is moving

It seems that these days all we hear about is the tragic impact our actions are having on planet earth. With billions of tons of waste filling our oceans, millions of people experiencing hunger every day, and thousands of species entering the ‘endangered species’ list, it is time for all of us to

United Nations agencies have just released their annual report on world food insecurity. Its main unhappy conclusion: Food insecurity has increased since 2014: So has worldwide obesity: What is to be done? Alas, that’s not what this report is about.