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World Hunger Is Increasing, Thanks to Wars and Climate Change
Around the globe, about 815 million people – 11 percent of the world’s population – went hungry in 2016, according to the latest data from the United Nations. This was the first increase in more than 15 years. Between 1990 and 2015, due largely to a set of sweeping initiatives by the global community, the proportion of undernourished people in the world was cut in half. In 2015, U.N. member countries adopted the Sustainable Development Goals, which doubled down on this success...
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We could eliminate world hunger right now... and we choose not to.
Instructions unclear. Nobody goes hungry, got it. Thing is, do kids eat free too?