Hunger: the facts

A data dive into global trends explores how rising malnourishment co-exists with overabundance and waste.

Sources: The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) 2020. FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO; Global Nutrition Report 2020WHO news-room; The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change: The Lancet Commission report, July 2019; WHO newsroomThe Hunger Virus’, Oxfam Media Briefing, 9 July 2020; Eduardo Botti Abbade Estimating the nutritional loss and the feeding potential derived from food losses’ in World Development (Vol 134) October 2020; ReFed analysis; foodwise.com.au; ‘Consumer Co-operatives…’, Daily Maverick, July 2020.

This work is part of the Food Justice files. It was funded by the European Journalism Centre, through the European Development Journalism Grants programme, a fund supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.