FAO, International Fund for Agriculture Development, UNICEF, UN world food Programme and WHO have jointly released SOFI 2022.
SOFI stands for “The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World”.
India has high undernourishment (about 16% of the population), wasting (about 17%), stunting (about 31%) and low exclusive breastfeeding practice (only 58%).
The world is moving further away from its goal of ending hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030.
Over 828 million were affected by hunger in 2021.
Over 8% will still face hunger by 2030 even if the global economic recovery is taken into consideration.
The gender gap in food insecurity continued to rise in 2021.
31.9 per cent of women in the world were moderately or severely food insecure, compared with 27.6 per cent of men.