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With 735 million people hungry, UN says world is “off track” to meet its 2030 goal

Residents pick up free groceries at a food pantry run by La Colaborativa, as the US is cutting benefits delivered through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program by the end of March which kept millions from going hungry through the COVID-19 pandemic, in Chelsea, Massachusetts, US, on 8th March, 2023.

Reuters About 735 million people worldwide faced chronic hunger in 2022, a figure much higher than before the COVID-19 pandemic and which threatens progress towards a global goal to end hunger by 2030, said the United Nations on Wednesday.  A multi-year upward trend in hunger rates leveled off last year as many countries recovered economically […]