Food insecurity five-year high 'down to COVID-19, conflict and extreme weather'
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🔴 Food insecurity is getting worse amid COVID-19, conflict and extreme weather. In numbers that means in 2020, 20m more people suffered from food insecurity than in 2019.
And 133,000 of those people were at a "catastrophic" phase of food insecurity.
CGTN Europe spoke to Luca Russo from the Food and Agriculture organization of the United Nations to learn more about why those numbers are so high and what we can do about it.
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