Hunger in the world, climate change and wars. The whole pack of catastrophes which could create a “perfect storm“. The alarm was launched by David Beasley, responsible for the World Food Program (WFP). He did it from Rome on the day UN agencies celebrates World Food Day. The goal of the United Nations is to defeat hunger by 2030 but there are many obstacles: enemies, climate change, economic slowdown.
«Children die every 5-10 seconds» for lack of food or malnutrition – Beasley highlighted, recalling the battle’s urgency and blaming food waste, both during the production process and in people’s homes. It is a problem that has immediate repercussions: «For every 1% increase in terms of hunger in the world, there is a 2% increase in migration».
As we could read in the last report of the FAO, there are about 821 million people who in 2017 have suffered hunger, while 155 million children under 5 years are chronically malnourished and over 2 billion suffer from what is defined as the «hidden hunger», a form of undernutrition. At the same time over 600 million people are obese, a condition that has enormous costs for society, equal to those of armed conflicts and smoking, said the head of the FAO, Jose Graziano da Silva.
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