According to the report, the growth in global hunger began during the COVID-19 pandemic but has only grown since then. “After remaining relatively unchanged since 2015, the proportion of people ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres described the figures as "another unflinching indictment of a world dangerously off course." In the report's foreword, he warned that "hunger and malnutrition ...

More than 295 million people faced acute hunger in 2024, with the outlook ‘bleak’ due to funding cuts for aid efforts.

India is home to the highest number of hungry people in the world, at 194 million, surpassing China, according to United Nations annual hunger report. More than 295 million people faced acute ...

Nearly 282 million people across 59 countries experienced acute hunger in 2023, according to the Global Report on Food Crises. Gaza had the highest number of people facing famine, data shows.

The prevalence of “undernourishment” -- where food consumption is insufficient to maintain an active and healthy life -- is used to measure hunger. Undernourishment continued to rise in 2021, and the ...

Acute food insecurity and child malnutrition rose for a sixth consecutive year in 2024, affecting more than 295 million people across 53 countries and territories, according to a U.N. report released ...

Financing to end hunger This year's report's theme "Financing to end hunger, food insecurity and all forms of malnutrition'', emphasizes that achieving SDG 2 Zero Hunger requires a multi-faceted ...

A new UN report, the UK and human rights organizations call for the release of Egypt's most prominent detainee. After around ...

A goal to eliminate global hunger by 2030 looks increasingly impossible to achieve as the number of people suffering chronic hunger has barely changed over the past year, a UN report says.

SINGAPORE, June 17 (Reuters) - The world is way off track on most of the sustainable development targets agreed in 2015, such as tackling poverty and hunger, says a United Nations report which ...

UN Report Warns of Famine ... assistance -- are driving alarming levels of acute food insecurity in 22 “hunger hotspots,” the report warned. Rein Paulsen, the Food and Agriculture ...