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by Marion Nestle
May
24
2024
Weekend reading: Food Crises
The first line in this report says it all: “This Global Report on Food Crises is a roll call of human failings.”
It does not get cheerier: “In 2023, 281.6 million people, or 21.5 percent of the analyzed population faced high levels of acutte food insecurity in 59 food-crisis countries/territories.”
This report does not make for easy reading, but we need to face the realities: conflicts, weather extremes, economic shocks, and decreased humanitarian funding.
Some of these, we can—and ought to—do something about.