Half of world’s hungry are in Asia — UN report

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Of the total number of undernourished people in 2020, more than half, or 418 million, live in Asia, the FAO report said.

The majority are in Southern Asia with 305.7 million undernourished individuals. It was followed by South-eastern Asia with 48.8 million, Western Asia with 42.3 million, and Central Asia with 2.6 million, it added.

“However, the speed, coverage, generosity and duration of the social protection responses varied across regions and countries, as did their effectiveness in mitigating the impacts of the pandemic on poverty,” it added. Meanwhile, in the Philippines, an estimated 3.4 million families experienced involuntary hunger at least once in three months, the independent pollster Social Weather Stations said in its

 

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