When hunger in Gaza reaches dramatic levels, “Marked by a peak of death in July”According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations agencies published, Monday, July 28, a highly anticipated report on the state of food security worldwide. The said “Sofi” report (for State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World) does not deal with the most acute situations of hunger as in Gaza, which require an emergency humanitarian response and are the subject of other analyzes. This reference publication studies the springs of chronic hunger, no less deleterious but often less visible, which requires long -term responses to adapt agricultural systems to global warming or reduce social inequalities.
In 2024, according to this report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Food Program, the World Health Organization, UNICEF and the International Agricultural Development Fund, 670 million people (8.2 % of the world’s population) suffered from chronic undernourishment. If the beginning of the 2020 decade, marked by the Pandemic of Covid-19, had experienced a sharp increase in hunger, it now reflected slightly from a peak of prevalence at 8.7 % in 2022.
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