Global Hunger Crisis: 282 Million People in Danger

Food insecurity around the world has gotten worse for the fifth consecutive year. That's according to the global report on food crisis. It says growing conflicts are one of the main drivers of hunger for hundreds of millions of people. 

the agencies that monitor food insecurity are sounding the alarm. It's not only climate change but the rapid spread of conflicts around the world that's causing widespread hunger.

 The global report on food crisis shows that last year nearly 282 million people faced acute food insecurity. That means their lives are in danger because they don't have enough to eat. 700,000 people in five countries or territories are on the brink of famine, catastrophic hunger, and almost all of them are in Gaza. The strip's entire population of 2.3 million people is now classified as food insecure. 

That means they regularly don't have enough to eat. The report also finds that years of fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo have made it the country with the most food insecure people, that's nearly 26 million. And in Sudan, a year of conflict on top of those that were already ongoing has left more than 20 million people facing a hunger crisis.

A surge in gang violence in Haiti has left half of the population without enough to eat in just a few months. Forced displacement and hunger go hand in hand, and more than 90 million people are either displaced within their own country's borders or have fled as refugees and asylum seekers, and many are due to hunger.