“The world has strayed from the course in the fight against hunger and is moving further and further away from the binding goal of defeating hunger by 2030,” announced the organization on Thursday in Berlin for the publication of the World Hunger Index 2021. According to this, around 811 million people around the world are living on the verge of famine. The situation is particularly dramatic in Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Madagascar and South Sudan.
The new World Hunger Index examines the food situation in 128 countries and confirms “the clear setbacks in the fight against hunger”. According to this, 47 countries will not even reach a low level of hunger by 2030, 28 of which are in sub-Saharan Africa.
“Unfortunately, our fears last year have been confirmed. Famine is back and multiple crises are causing the number of starving people to continue to rise », says Marlehn Thieme, President of Welthungerhilfe. “The corona pandemic has exacerbated the tense food situation in many countries in the south and millions of families have lost their livelihoods. The biggest hunger drivers, however, remain conflicts and climate change. “