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About 735 million people worldwide faced chronic hunger in 2022, a figure much higher than before the COVID-19 pandemic and which threatens progress towards a global goal to end hunger by 2030, said the United Nations on Wednesday.
A multi-year upward trend in hunger rates leveled off last year as many countries recovered economically from the pandemic, but the war in Ukraine and its pressure on food and energy prices offset some of those gains, the UN said in its annual State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report.
The result is that an estimated 122 million more people were hungry in 2022 than in 2019 and the world is "far off track" to meet the UN's Sustainable Development Goal of ending hunger by 2030, said the report. Instead, the report projects that 600 million people will be undernourished in 2030.
(Cover: Families seen at Qoloji internally displaced persons' camp, the largest camp in Ethiopia housing over 100,000 displaced individuals, July 10, 2023. /CFP)
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