UN warns of 'unprecedented global hunger crisis' this year

The head of the United Nations warned on Friday that the world faces a "catastrophe" because of the growing shortage of food around the globe.Antonio Guterres says the war in Ukraine, climate change, the pandemic and inequality produced a "global hunger crisis"Mr Guterres says UN negotiators are working on a deal that will allow Ukraine to export food

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the war in Ukraine had added to the disruptions caused by climate change, the coronavirus pandemic and inequality to produce an "unprecedented global hunger crisis" already affecting hundreds of millions of people. "There is a real risk that multiple famines will be declared in 2022," he said in a video message to officials from dozens of rich and developing countries gathered in Berlin.Mr Guterres said that harvests across Asia, Africa and the Americas would take a hit as farmers around the world struggled to cope with rising fertiliser and energy prices."No country will be immune to the social and economic repercussions of such a catastrophe.

He also called for debt relief for poor countries to help keep their economies afloat and for the private sector to help stabilise global food markets.The Berlin meeting's host, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, said Moscow's claim that Western sanctions imposed over Russia's invasion of Ukraine were to blame for food shortages was "completely untenable."

Russia exported as much wheat in May and June this year as in the same months of 2021, Ms Baerbock said.

Yes, I wonder why that is Hmmm… 🤔 Perhaps I need to talk to Bill Gates, he seems to always invest in things that “help the crisis” just before the crisis happens. Maybe he can share the millions of hectares of farmland he bought in the last two years or so…

Why don't they STOP the war😡

shit happens, all northern hemisphere created problems which they refuse to address

Bull shit

BS. But who care anyway.. We're all technically dead already about 20 years ago according to their calculations.

Guterez has this unique and amazing skill of stating the bleeding obvious. What's his salary?

Lesson 1 from Sri Lanka - don't ban non 'organic' fertilizer. Lesson 2 - Climate Change cuts both ways, some crops favors a higher global mean temperature while other are not. In fact most staple food crops favor a higher global mean temperature.

The more power the globalists take from the people, the worse things get.

look at my boobs😘

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