Healthy food is becoming increasingly unaffordable

“More people around the world are going hungry, with tens of millions of people having joined the ranks of the chronically undernourished over the past five years. In the 2020 edition of the ‘State of food security and nutrition in the world’, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) estimates that almost 690 million people went hungry in 2019, which was up by 10 million from 2018, and nearly 60 million in five years. In addition, the report forecasts, the COVID-19 pandemic could cause about 130 million more people to suffer from chronic hunger across the world by the end of 2020.

THE NUMBERS EXPLAINED

In total, the amount of people suffering from hunger worldwide was revised