Acute food insecurity soars to five-year high: UN report
By: ANI
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Brussels: The number of people facing acute food insecurity and needing urgent life and livelihood-saving assistance has hit a five-year high in 2020 in countries beset by food crises, an annual report launched by the Global Network Against Food Crises (GNAFC) has found.
GNAFC is an international alliance of the UN, the EU, governmental and non-governmental agencies working to tackle food crises together.
The stark warning from the 2021 Global Report on Food Crises shows that conflict or economic shocks that are often related to COVID-19 along with extreme weather are continuing to push millions of people into acute food insecurity.