A report titled “2023 Hunger Funding Gap Report: What’s Needed to Stop the Global Hunger Crisis” was released recently by Action Against Hunger.
According to this report, countries facing intense hunger crises received lesser hunger funding than the countries that have comparatively lesser hunger crises.
The report noted a hunger funding gap of 53%. In 2022.
Only 3 per cent of hunger programme needs were fully funded.
Around 65 per cent of appeals were not fulfilled even to a halfway point.
47% of the global hunger needs are met through UN funds.
Thus, the Hunger Funding Gap stands at 53%.
828 million people were affected by hunger in 2021.
This is 46 million people more than the year earlier and 150 million more from 2019.
It requires 4 billion USD to stop the hunger crisis in the world.
Mozambique and Kenya received 32% higher funding than Afghanistan and Haiti.