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World hunger is increasing thanks to wars and climate change

  • Written by Leah Samberg, Research Associate, Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota
imageSmallholder agriculture in southern Ethiopia. Smallholder farmers are particularly vulnerable to food insecurity.Leah Samberg

Around the globe, about 815 million people – 11 percent of the world’s population – went hungry in 2016, according to the latest data from the United Nations. This was the first increase in more than 15...

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