According to the most recent report on the state of food security and nutrition in the world, prepared by five UN entities, for three consecutive years the rates are increasing as global crises deepen.

The document, presented in this capital on the occasion of the Ministerial Meeting of the G20 Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty Working Group, warns the trend is “far from achieving Sustainable Development Goal 2, Zero Hunger, by 2030.”

On the contrary, according to the report, the planet has regressed 15 years, with malnutrition levels comparable to 2008-2009.

An alarming number of people face food insecurity and malnutrition as global hunger levels have stagnated for three consecutive years, with between 713 million and 757 million undernourished people in 2023.

“If current trends continue, some 582 million people will be chronically undernourished by 2030, half of them in Africa,” the research led by the Food and Agriculture Organization, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the World Food Program, the World Health Organization and Unicef estimated.

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