Press release
The People’s Republic of China is responding to the nutrition crisis in South Sudan
JUBA, South Sudan 15 February 2021 –, Today, 14,056 Boxes of ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) were handed over from the People’s Republic of China to UNICEF South Sudan. The country is in the middle of a nutrition crisis with an estimated 313,000 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in 2021...
Report
In Brief: The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020
Almost 690 million people around the world went hungry in 2019. As progress in fighting hunger stalls, the COVID-19 pandemic is intensifying the vulnerabilities and inadequacies of global food systems. While it is too early to assess the full impact of the lockdowns and other containment measures, at least another 83 million people, and possibly as many as 132 million, may go hungry in 2020. The setback throws into further doubt the achievement o...
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Global Report on Food Crises reveals scope of food crises as COVID-19 poses new risks to vulnerable countries
21 April 2020, Brussels/Rome/New York, – Today an international alliance of UN, governmental, and nongovernmental agencies working to address the root causes of extreme hunger have released a new edition of their annual Global Report on Food Crises ., Key findings of the Global Report, The report by the Global Net...