Pandemic caused biggest increase in world hunger for decades, UN says

The Covid-19 pandemic caused an estimated 18 per cent increase in the number of people facing hunger, a United Nations report released on Monday found, dealing a massive setback to efforts to ensure everyone has access to food.The world was already off track to achieve its goal of eradicating hunger by 2030, but the report warned that Covid-19 had now sent it back in the wrong direction.The “economic downturns as a consequence of Covid-19 containment measures all over the world have contributed…

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