Millions of people are going hungrier than ever.
brought on by Russia's invasion of Ukraine and commodity shortages triggered by climate emergencies are threatening to “destabilize” economies around the world, a United Nations official warned.
“It’s the story that keeps getting from bad to worse,” U.N. World Food Programme Chief Economist Arif Husain told Yahoo Finance Live . “When the World Food Programme is setting records, that's not a good thing for the world. And we have been doing that since at least 2021.”, 50 million people across 45 countries are already on the verge of famine. Another 345 million people are approaching starvation across more than 80 countries, Husain said, a 25% increase from the start of the year.
“In 2020, we assisted about 116 million people," Husain said."That was a record in our 60-year history. In 2021, we assisted 128 million people. Again, that was a record. This year, we are planning to assist upwards of 140 million people, which will, again, be a record."Those records are exacerbated by the ongoing impacts from climate change. Historic heat waves in Europe and India have already depleted crop production.
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