Category: food poverty
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Accelerating Innovation and Investment to Tackle Food Insecurity: Insights from The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023 Report
Introduction The persistent issue of global food insecurity remains a challenge that demands urgent attention and multifaceted solutions. The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023 report sheds light on the pressing need for accelerated innovation and investment in technologies to address the complex challenges causing food insecurity. This report, compiled by…
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Seeing the impact of COVID on UK Food Banks
A Worrying Trend Coronavirus has had devastating impacts around the world, particularly for those who were already vulnerable, including at home here in the UK. As well as the rising number of deaths, hundreds of thousands of people are being driven into financial hardship. Whilst government measures like the furlough scheme and temporary increases to…
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Today’s cost of fighting against hunger
How much is being spent to tackle hunger and malnutrition? After many nights of reading through papers by the likes of the UN and WHO, data on government domestic and international spending as well as releases and annual reports of some of the largest charities fighting hunger globally – the truth is I couldn’t confidently…
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Breaking the Cycle of Poverty and Malnutrition
With hundreds of millions people worldwide suffering from severe food insecurity, the current level of effort is not anywhere near enough to end malnutrition in the next decade, with a need to focus on increasing efforts in providing access to nutritious food. Poor nutrition in children in particular drives a cyclical relationship between malnutrition and…
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