The 2020 edition of The Global Report on Food Crises describes the scale of acute hunger in the world. It provides an analysis of the drivers that are contributing to food crises across the globe, and examines how the COVID-19 pandemic might contribute to their perpetuation or deterioration.
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The report is produced by the Global Network against Food Crises, an international alliance working to address the root causes of extreme hunger.
Among 43 million live in the Middle East and Asia and 18.5 million live in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Acute food insecurity when a person’s inability to consume adequate food puts their lives or livelihoods in immediate danger. Each year by the UN’s annual State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report are released.
This report is the result of a consensus-based and multi-partner analytical process involving 16 international humanitarian and development partners (in alphabetical order) and various organisations participated all the way to United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), Comité Permanent Inter-Etats de Lutte contre la Sécheresse dans le Sahel (CILSS), the European Union (EU), Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Global Food Security Cluster, Global Nutrition Cluster, Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Global Support Unit, Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Sistema de la Integración Centroamericana (SICA), Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
