{"id":12462,"date":"2021-05-06T13:29:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T10:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=12462"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:28","slug":"155-million-faced-acute-food-insecurity-in-2020-conflict-the-key-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2021\/05\/06\/155-million-faced-acute-food-insecurity-in-2020-conflict-the-key-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"155 million faced acute food insecurity in 2020, conflict the key driver"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It\u2019s been five years since hunger levels were this bad across 55 countries under review, according to the Global Network Against Food Crises (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fightfoodcrises.net\/about\/en\/\">GNAFC<\/a>), which noted that 20 million more people went hungry last year than in 2019.&nbsp;https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=UN_News_Centre&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfX0%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1389908500357189639&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.un.org%2Fen%2Fstory%2F2021%2F05%2F1091302&amp;sessionId=373269eb2fe8cce8b11dd24addaba0005c06a87d&amp;siteScreenName=UN_News_Centre&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=82e1070%3A1619632193066&amp;width=550px<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Countries in Africa remained \u201cdisproportionally affected\u201d, it said, adding that conflict pushed almost 100 million people into acute food insecurity, followed by economic shocks (40 million) and weather extremes (16 million).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Vicious cycle: Guterres&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cConflict and hunger are mutually reinforcing. We need to tackle hunger and conflict together to solve either\u2026We must do everything we can to end this vicious cycle. Addressing hunger is a foundation for stability and peace\u201d,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sg\/en\/content\/noon-briefing-highlight\">said UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres,<\/a>\u00a0writing in the report.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2021\/05\/1091302\">Read more <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been five years since hunger levels were this bad across 55 countries under review, according to the Global Network Against Food Crises (GNAFC), which noted that 20 million more&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}