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World hunger surged in 2020, with 1 in 10 people on Earth undernourished

  • Written by Jessica Eise, Assistant Professor of Social and Environmental Challenges, The University of Texas at San Antonio
imageYemeni children, who live in a hunger hot spot, wait to get food in June 2021. Mohammed Hamoud/Getty ImagesimageCC BY-ND

Nearly 10% of everyone on Earth – an estimated 768 million of us – were undernourished in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted economies, job markets and supply chains and inflated food prices. According to the latest...

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