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2021 Global Report on Food Crises

May 8 , 2021 1209 days 816 0
  • The Global Network Against Food Crises (GNAFC) recently released the “2021 Global Report on Food Crises”.
  • The GNAFC is an international alliance formed by the European Union, United Nations and other governmental and non-governmental agencies.
  • The report says that economic crisis was the major reason to push 40 million people towards hunger in 2020.
  • This has increased by 24 million as compared to that of 2019.

Note

  • Africa is the most affected continent due to food shortages.
  • More than 63% of global food shortage cases are from Africa.
  • Zimbabwe and Haiti were hit by climate issues that affected food security of 15 million people.

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