No fewer than 113 million people were affected in 2018 by very serious food shortages, including famine, a report by the European Union and two United Nations agencies said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe worst situations were, in order of severity, in Yemen, Congo, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Syria, Sudan, South Sudan and Northern Nigeria,\u2019\u2019 the Global Report on Food Crises said.<\/p>\n
Jose Graziano da Silva, head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), said that the number of seriously hungry people, even though down from 2017\u2019s 124 million, was \u201cstill far too high.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
The World Food Programme (WFP), another UN agency, also contributed to the report.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo truly end hunger, we must attack the root causes: conflict, instability, the impact of climate shocks,\u2019\u2019 WFP executive director David Beasley said.<\/p>\n
In September, in a report covering a wider definition of undernourishment, UN agencies said some 821 million people, one-ninth of the world\u2019s population, did not have enough to eat in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
No fewer than 113 million people were affected in 2018 by very serious food shortages, including famine, a report by the European Union and two United Nations agencies said on Tuesday. \u201cThe worst situations were, in order of severity, in Yemen, Congo, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Syria, Sudan, South Sudan and Northern Nigeria,\u2019\u2019 the Global Report on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":7631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[136,360,549,332],"class_list":["post-7629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-death","tag-eu","tag-hunger","tag-un"],"yoast_head":"\n