In the past two years the number of people who are acutely food-insecure has nearly doubled from 150m to 283m
ago things were looking up in the battle against hunger. The number of people going without food had declined by more than 100m in the past decade, and efforts to reduce malnourishment were paying off. “This is proof that we can win the fight against hunger”, wrote the heads of theThe rosy outlook has since darkened.
Data from Uppsala University in Sweden find that between 2011 and 2020 the number of armed conflicts rose by around 50%. Civil wars in Myanmar, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen have left people starving. In northernviolent encounters between government forces, militias and civilians mean more than 400,000 are without food—the worst famine since Somalia’s in 2011.
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