The report is alarming. Far from approaching the Millennium Development Goals which aim to "eradicate hunger in 2030" , the planet is moving away from it. Since 2014, the number of people suffering from hunger or severe malnutrition has continued to increase, points out the 2020 report on "the state of food security and nutrition in the world" published by several United Nations (UN) agencies . Nearly 690 million people, or 8.9% of the world's population and 60 million more than five years ago, " were hungry " in 2019.
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If we add to it “ food insecurity ”, that is to say the impossibility of having regular access to healthy, balanced and nutritious food, it is not far from 2 billion people who were hungry or malnourished or malnourished, the study summarizes. Not surprisingly, the Covid-19 pandemic does not improve the situation. The number of undernourished people is expected to increase from 83 to 132 million in 2020.
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