UN: 2.3 billion people severely or moderately hungry in 2021
By EDITH M. LEDERER
Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the U.N. food agency is warning that the spike in food, fuel and fertilizer prices sparked by the war in Ukraine is threatening to push countries around the world into famine. David Beasley says the result will be “global destabilization, starvation and mass migration on an unprecedented scale.” Beasley told a high-level U.N. meeting Wednesday for the release of the latest U.N. report on global hunger that the latest analysis says that “a record 345 million acutely hungry people are marching to the brink of starvation.” That is up from 276 million in January 2022 before the start of the war in Ukraine.
