{"id":27526,"date":"2018-10-23T14:35:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T09:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=27526"},"modified":"2018-10-23T14:35:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T09:05:29","slug":"number-of-people-suffering-from-hunger-increasing-un-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/number-of-people-suffering-from-hunger-increasing-un-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Number of people suffering from hunger increasing, UN report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/lifestyle\/health\/number-of-people-suffering-from-hunger-increased-un-report-5350759\/\">Number of people suffering from hunger increasing, UN report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>UN \u00a0has released report, \u201cThe State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World\u201d to highlight undernutrition and hunger in the world.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Important Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2. The report has been jointly prepared by UN International Fund for Agricultural Development, World Food Programme, World Health Organisation and UN Children Fund.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Key <\/strong><strong>Findings<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hunger- starved people climbed 8 year high since 2009 to 821 million \u00a0in 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Under nutrition and food insecurity increased since 2014 in all parts of Europe and North America.<\/li>\n<li>Hunger is worse in countries where agriculture is highly sensitive to severe drought and where high share of population depends on farming.<\/li>\n<li>Conflict in nations like Yemen and economic crises in countries like Venezuela have restricted people\u2019s access to food.<\/li>\n<li>151 million children aged under 5 \u00a0are stunted due to malnutrition in 2017, compared to 165 million in 2012.<\/li>\n<li>Globally, Africa and Asia accounted for 39% and 55% \u00a0of all stunted children, respectively.<\/li>\n<li>One in three women of reproductive age globally is affected by anaemia and no region has shown a decline in this.<\/li>\n<li>Less than half \u00a0( 40.7%) of the percentage of infants aged below 6 months were exclusively breastfed.<\/li>\n<li>Adult obesity is worsening and \u00a0is more significant in North America, but Africa and Asia are also experiencing an upward trend.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>4. Key drivers behind the rise in hunger:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Climate variability affecting rainfall patterns and agricultural seasons.<\/li>\n<li>Climate extremes such as droughts and floods where high share of population depends on farming.<\/li>\n<li>Conflicts and economic slowdown in countries.<\/li>\n<li>Difficulty in sourcing nutritious food resulting in obesity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>5. Way Forward:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Urgent local and global action to address the multiple forms of malnutrition to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 2 ) of Zero Hunger by 2030.<\/li>\n<li>Leaders must redouble efforts to cut the use of fossil fuels<\/li>\n<li>Commit funds to help poor countries adapt to climate crises.<\/li>\n<li>Policies must pay special attention to vulnerable groups like infants, school-aged children, and women.<\/li>\n<li>Sustainable shift \u00a0towards nutrition-sensitive agriculture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Number of people suffering from hunger increasing, UN report News: UN \u00a0has released report, \u201cThe State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World\u201d to highlight undernutrition and hunger in the world. Important Facts: 2. The report has been jointly prepared by UN International Fund for Agricultural Development, World Food Programme, World Health Organisation and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/number-of-people-suffering-from-hunger-increasing-un-report\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Number of people suffering from hunger increasing, UN report<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704780485},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}