World faces unprecedented global hunger crisis, UN chief says

UNITED NATIONS, 25 June 2022, (TON): There is a real risk of multiple famines this year, UN chief Antonio Guterres said and urged ministers meeting on food security to take practical steps to stabilize food markets and reduce commodity price volatility.

Guterres told the meeting in Berlin “we face an unprecedented global hunger crisis.”

He said “the war in Ukraine has compounded problems that have been brewing for years: climate disruption; the pandemic; the deeply unequal recovery.”

More than 460,000 people in Somalia, Yemen and South Sudan are in famine conditions under the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification a scale used by UN agencies, regional bodies and aid groups to determine food insecurity.

This is the step before a declaration of famine in a region.

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