Food security: We are still going backward

ROME: The signs of the last few years indicate a continuous setback toward achieving food security. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations' annual report "The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI)" prepared together with other UN agencies and presented released last July 6 leaves no doubt about the dangerous situation in which we find ourselves regarding the real possibilities of eliminating hunger and poverty by 2030, as solemnly proposed by the international community in October 2015 in New York.

According to the latest SOFI data, world hunger in 2021 reached 828 million people, an increase of 46 million from 2020 and 150 million since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, showing that hunger has skyrocketed in 2020, after five years of no change or slight improvements. In 2019, the global population suffering from hunger was 8 percent of the world population, in 2020 it was 9.3 percent and in 2021 it reached 9.8 percent.