May 06, 2021

Andrew Campbell 

In 2020, global food insecurity influenced at least 155 million people around the world, according to the report of the Global Network against Food Crises. This report showed the number of starvations would meet the highest in five years and marked an increase of 20 million people from 2019. 

The report indicated that 55 countries and territories are faced with the most severe food crises. Major reasons to cause the extreme starvation were conflicts, climate change, and economic fallout. The hunger crisis will not improve immediately, and the situation will continue to aggravate in 2021. 

In the report, there were two-third of people facing the level of urgent food crises. These people were in Congo, Yemen, Syria, Haiti and so on. From the report, about 133,000 people in Burkina Faso, South Sudan and Yemen faced hunger, death, and poverty. 

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres wrote a statement in the report. He mentioned that starvation should not exist in the 21st century and we need to do everything we can to help people and to solve the issues of the urgent food insecurity. 

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the fragility of the global food system. People in the world need more reliable and sustainable systems to provide food for about 8.5 billion people by 2030. Therefore, Mr. Guterres took a lead to establish a famine prevention task to get notifications from high-level and to organize support for the most affected countries. 

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