Every 11th inhabitant of the Earth faces hunger, while global conflicts and crises further threaten the availability of food for millions of people around the world. On the eve of World Food Day, an estimated 733 million are hungry
The World Food Program (WFP) announced that 733 million people in the world face hunger, which is one in 11 inhabitants of the Earth.
"As global challenges grow, food aid is a lifesaver for millions affected by conflict and crisis," WFP said in a message on the occasion. World Food Day, which is celebrated next Wednesday.
The WFP posted an appeal on multiple social networks, calling for greater efforts to ensure that food reaches all the people in need, as well as to prevent further spread of the famine disaster.
Record number of hungry people in 2022
If we compare this year's figure with that of 2022, we will see that it is significantly lower. Among other things, that year will be remembered for the fact that 811 million people were starving in the world.
It seemed for a while that the world was winning the battle against hunger, the number of hungry people was decreasing year by year. And then came the corona virus, the collapse of the economy due to the pandemic, climate change, conflicts in Ethiopia and Afghanistan, and finally the war in Ukraine, which exports grains that feed 400 million people around the world.
"In 2022, we are experiencing the greatest famine disaster since the United Nations was founded." It is, in fact, unimaginable. And there is no indication that next year could be better," said the head of the UN World Food Program (WFP), David Beasley, at the time.
World Food Day
World Food Day is one of the most important dates in the Public Health Calendar.
It has been celebrated since 1981, in over 150 countries of the world. The date of its celebration, October 16, was symbolically taken as the day when the World Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) was founded back in 1945.
The campaign marking this year's World Food Day points to the fact that all the accumulated global misfortunes inevitably spill over into the issue of food availability and security, which is an issue that affects the planet as a whole, but also every individual on it.
We live in a time in which over three billion people around the world, which is about 40 percent of the world's population, cannot afford healthy and safe foods, which directly leads to malnutrition, while in the long run, which is even more problematic, those people they are trapped in a position of general existential insecurity.
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