UN Agencies Warn of , 'Looming Catastrophe' , As World Hunger Continues to Rise.<br />Al Jazeera reports that world hunger levels have continued to soar, threatening starvation and mass migration on an "unprecedented scale" in 2022.<br />On July 6, the Food and Agriculture Organization, <br />World Food Program and World Health Organization <br />released the 2022 U.N. food security and nutrition report.<br />According to the report, up to 828 million <br />people, nearly 10% of the world's population, <br />were impacted by hunger in 2021. .<br />That's 46 million more than in 2020 <br />and 150 million more than in 2019.<br />WFP Executive Director David Beasley warned <br />that the rising price of food, fuel and fertilizers <br />threatens to push countries into famine.<br />There is a real danger these numbers will climb even higher in the months ahead, David Beasley, WFP Executive Director, via Al Jazeera.<br />The result will be global destabilization, <br />starvation, and mass migration on an <br />unprecedented scale. We have to act <br />today to avert this looming catastrophe, David Beasley, WFP Executive Director, via Al Jazeera.<br />The result will be global destabilization, <br />starvation, and mass migration on an <br />unprecedented scale. We have to act <br />today to avert this looming catastrophe, David Beasley, WFP Executive Director, via Al Jazeera.<br />Russia's war in Ukraine has disrupted exports,<br />pushed food and energy prices to record levels and <br />exacerbated COVID-related supply chain issues.<br />Russia's war in Ukraine has disrupted exports,<br />pushed food and energy prices to record levels and <br />exacerbated COVID-related supply chain issues.<br />Every year, 11 million people die due <br />to unhealthy diets. Rising food prices <br />mean this will only get worse, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, <br />WHO Director-General, via Al Jazeera.<br />WHO supports countries’ efforts to <br />improve food systems through taxing <br />unhealthy foods, subsidising healthy options, <br />protecting children from harmful marketing, <br />and ensuring clear nutrition labels, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, <br />WHO Director-General, via Al Jazeera.<br />WHO supports countries’ efforts to <br />improve food systems through taxing <br />unhealthy foods, subsidising healthy options, <br />protecting children from harmful marketing, <br />and ensuring clear nutrition labels, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, <br />WHO Director-General, via Al Jazeera
