Global hunger rises for first time in decade

Global hunger levels have risen for the first time in more than a decade, now affecting 11 percent of the world’s population, as conflict, climate change and economic woes bite, U.N. agencies said on Friday. Last year, 815 million people were hungry – 38 million more than in 2015 – the five agencies said in the first global assessment since governments set an international target to eliminate hunger and

malnutrition by 2030, as one of a set of so-called Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The number of hungry began to rise in 2014, but this is the first time in more then a decade that the proportion of the global population going hungry has risen. About 489 million of the hungry are living in countries affected by conflict. READ MORE