World Hunger Rising: 800 Million Undernourished Last Year As Yemen and Gaza Hit Hard

We speak to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation’s Chief Economist Maximo Torero. He discusses the large increase in people around the world who are chronically undernourished, how the Coronavirus lockdown-fuelled economic recessions have reduced incomes dramatically and fuelled the food security crisis, the role of climate change and conflicts in exacerbating world hunger, why the FAO 2021 report doesn’t focus as much on hunger and poverty in Western countries, Cuba’s successful elimination of hunger prior to the pandemic and much more!