1.6 billion people will experience hunger: Never have so many people suffered from hunger

This development was to be expected. The past year was marked by three global crises, all of which had negative impacts on the food situation worldwide. It started with the 2007-2008 food crisis, which was sparked by extremely high food prices and caused a rise in the number of people exposed to hunger from 800 million to 900 million. It was followed virtually at once by the economic and financial crisis, which further exacerbated world food situation. The third crisis, climate change, manifested itself in the same period of time, particularly in major droughts and crop failures in many parts of the world.



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