'We cannot accept mass hunger and starvation in the 21st century.'
"There is a real risk that multiple famines will be declared in 2022," said Secretary-General Antonio Guterres."And 2023 could be even worse."United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called for debt relief for the world's poorest countries on Friday as hethat an"unprecedented global food crisis" that is already ravaging more vulnerable nations will also have severe impacts for the entire world.
"There is a real risk that multiple famines will be declared in 2022," said Guterres in an address to the U.N. Ministerial Conference."And 2023 could be even worse." "This year’s food access issues could become next year’s global food shortage," Guterres added."No country will be immune to the social and economic repercussions of such a catastrophe."
The crisis is most severe in"15 mainly African nations, such as Burkina Faso, Chad, Kenya, Somalia and Sudan, but also Afghanistan and Haiti," said the agency.UNICEF, the global food crisis is"pushing one child per minute into severe malnutrition."
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