Today, 270mn people – equivalent to the combined population of Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy – are on the brink of starvation. This number has doubled over the last 12 months. And it is the world’s children who are suffering most. An estimated 11mn children under the age of five face extreme hunger or starvation in 11 countries in Africa, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Asia. Of these, 168,000 will die of malnutrition by the end of 2022 unless they receive emergency support. And a total of 73mn primary schoolchildren in 60 low-income countries are chronically hungry. Hunger was already on the rise before the coronavirus pandemic, mostly as a result of war and conflict,
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