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World hunger surged to 15-year high as Covid-19 pandemic stifled food access
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World hunger spiked last year, outpacing population growth and probably reaching the highest since 2005, as the Covid-19 pandemic curbed incomes and access to food, according to the United Nations.
As many as 811 million people — about a 10th of the global population — were undernourished in 2020, the UN said in a report on Monday.
The agency said it’ll now take a “tremendous" effort for the world to fulfill a pledge to end hunger by 2030, and reiterated a call to transform food systems.
The fallout from the pandemic put healthy food further out of reach for many people, and this year’s surge in food prices to the highest in almost a decade is particularly bad news for poorer countries dependent on imports.
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