To reduce world hunger, governments need to think beyond making food cheap

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Michael Fakhri, University of Oregon and Ntina Tzouvala, Australian National University

(THE CONVERSATION) According to a new United Nations report, global rates of hunger and malnutrition are on the rise. The report estimates that in 2019, 690 million people – 8.9% of the world’s population – were undernourished. It predicts that this number will exceed 840 million by 2030.If you also include the number of people who the U.N. describes as food insecure, meaning that they have trouble getting access to food, over 2 billion […]

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