Africa - Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2023
| dc.coverage | Africa | |
| dc.creator | FAO | |
| dc.date | 2024-03-16T01:16:36Z | |
| dc.date | 2024-03-16T01:16:36Z | |
| dc.date | 2023 | |
| dc.date | 2023-12-20T05:55:18.0000000Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-06-28T00:30:21Z | |
| dc.description | Africa is facing a food crisis of unprecedented proportions. Millions are expected to be at risk of worsening hunger in the near future due to the rippling effects of the war in Ukraine, which are compounding the devastating impacts that conflicts, climate variability and extremes, economic slowdowns and downturns, and the aftereffects of the COVID-19 pandemic are having on the most vulnerable. In this context, social and gender inequalities are also on the rise, with women and girls being among the most affected by these shocks. Despite efforts made in several countries, the African continent is not on track to meet the food security and nutrition targets of the Sustainable Development Goal 2 on Zero Hunger for 2030, and certainly the Malabo targets of ending hunger and all forms of malnutrition by 2025. The most recent estimates show that nearly 282 million people in Africa (about 20 percent of the population) were undernourished in 2022, an increase of 57 million people since the COVID-19 pandemic began. About 868 million people were moderately or severely food-insecure and more than one-third of them – 342 million people – were severely food-insecure. | |
| dc.format | 2p. | |
| dc.identifier | https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/CC9057EN | |
| dc.identifier | http://www.fao.org/3/cc9057en/cc9057en.pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/311037 | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.publisher | FAO ; | |
| dc.rights | FAO | |
| dc.title | Africa - Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2023 | |
| dc.title | Summary | |
| dc.type | Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet |