Higher food prices help fuel 40% jump in global hunger - UN agency WION 12 hours ago © Provided by WION By Maytaal Angel
LONDON (Reuters) - Acute food insecurity has soared 40% this year as recent food price hikes have exacerbated existing pressures from conflict, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said.
Defined as any lack of food that threatens lives, livelihoods or both, acute food insecurity is impacting, or is at high risk of impacting, a record 270 million people this year, the U.N. agency said. High food prices are hunger`s new best friend, said WFP Chief Economist Arif Husain.
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