KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Aug 4 2020 (IPS) – , issued by the Food and Agriculture Organization and its United Nations partners in mid-July, reports that chronic hunger continued to increase to 690 million worldwide in 2019, 60 million more than in 2014.
Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Some two billion people worldwide were already experiencing some food insecurity during 2019, a number likely to spike upward due to Covid-19. Although headline hunger numbers have been significantly revised down retrospectively with better official data, the uptrend remains alarming.
The 2020 UN report continues to expand its coverage of malnutrition, going beyond the old narrow focus on dietary energ…