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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recently warned of the worsening hunger currently afflicting millions of people in the world and the consequences of not renewing the food exemption between Russia, Ukraine and Turkey.
In connection with World Food Day on October 16, the FAO presented data revealing that there are 345 million hungry people on the planet and one of them dies every four seconds due to this cause.
“We are facing an unprecedented global food crisis, and all indications are that we have not seen the worst yet,” said the Executive Director of the World Food Program.
And Beasley added, let me be clear, things can and will only get worse unless there is a large-scale coordinated effort to address the root causes of this crisis. We cannot have another record year of hunger, he said.
The World Food Program notes that the global food crisis has not yet reached its peak, and will continue to rise in 2023, a situation exacerbated by the epidemic, climate change and the international economic and security crisis.
As a result, the FAO has called for the renewal of the food agreement reached in July with Russia, Ukraine and Turkey, which is due to expire in November, thus reducing tensions in grain and fertilizer supplies to international markets.
“Not renewing this could cause that within a year there will be between 13 and 20 million people going hungry,” Marco Sanchez, Deputy Director of FAO’s Department of Agri-Food Economics, told the press.
“Supply chains cannot be stopped because one of the main problems is that the poor and the most vulnerable will be left without food,” the official stressed.
(taken from Telesur)
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