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Global food crisis and implications for actions in the context of war and pandemic shocks

Kornher, Lukas / Joachim von Braun
External Publications (2024)

in: Joachim von Braun / Bettina Iseli / Maximo Torero / Peter Turkson (eds.), Food and humanitarian crises: science and policies for prevention and mitigation, Proceedings of the Working Group 9-10 May 2023, Vatican City: Scripta Varia 154

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After years of encouraging progress made toward reducing the number of undernourished people globally, in 2015 this trend began to stagnate and by 2018, undernourishment numbers began to rise. This trend was reinforced by the global COVID-19 pandemic, which led to an increase in hunger by 150 million since the outbreak of the pandemic. Supply shortages in international grain and vegetable oil markets, as a direct consequence of the Russian invasion and Ukraine’s inability to export, as well as high international food prices in the first half of 2022, have worsened the global food situation and likely contributed to global hunger increases.