🌍 Nearly 1 billion people have severe difficulty obtaining food

🌍 Nearly 1 billion people have severe difficulty obtaining food

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Around the world, nearly 1 billion people have had difficulty obtaining food. This year, as many as 1 billion people—1 in 8—globally have had severe difficulty obtaining food and have had to skip meals as a result. After a decade of consistent development gains, global hunger has increased sharply in recent years. Food Security Update.



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Global Food Crisis Finding Solutions with the Global Food and Nutrition Security Dashboard. In recent years, global acute food insecurity has reached alarming levels due to factors such as conflict, climate shocks, and the impact of COVID-19. However, there is hope. Introducing the Global Food and Nutrition Security Dashboard—a powerful tool designed to inform a coordinated global food crisis response and strengthen resilience against future crises. Join us to explore this interactive platform that brings together the latest information on food crisis severity, food security financing, and innovative research. Learn more and see how your country is doing

World Bank on YouTube in EnglishFrenchSpanish and Arabic.



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World Development Report 2023: Migrants, Refugees, and Societies

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Donald Day

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Then why are they destroying our food resources,which includes destroying farmland for more housing ,when we cannot supply water and electricity for our current population.

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Patrick James Njakani-Okoko

Economics and Sustainable Development Expert , Researcher & practitioner

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Access to food being among basic needs , despite various chocks ,especially the climate one reducing capacity of people to produce in their maximum to feed the population. Continual efforts are to be done to mitigate or overcome such a major challenge, this require one side to think and address globally such an issue and other side, locally to align responses systems which factors both the immediate and long term perspective as far as the SDGs are concern in regards with access to food. A simple look worldwide reveals that often the simple needs of people turns around God job , quality of life, access to food and clean water , etc...The WBG as also a bank of knowledge has a major role play and support in this regard, as example, in DRC the necessary resource's ( land , human, financial ) are available but failure are recorded as consequence of the lack of appropriate technical expertise and an inefficient Governance in the Agriculture sector.

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