FAO: 820 Million Suffer from Hunger Worldwide

The United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization  "FAO" affirmed that human access to food is an original right, not a privilege. However, there are 820 million people who are suffering from hunger.

It is a matter of ensuring that everyone, everywhere has enough food to lead a healthy life to avoid malnourishment.

The organization's management stressed that the matter does not stop at this point, but is also related to enabling people to feed themselves and ensure that everyone has access to healthy food systems, while at the same time preserving the environment and biopersity.

FAO, in a message on its official Twitter account, revealed that the number of people suffering from hunger around the world has increased.

The right to food was recognized in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 25) as part of the right to an adequate standard of living, and was enshrined in the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Article 11).

The World Food Program of the United Nations also warned of the high levels of famine in four African and Arab countries due to poverty. The countries are: Burkina Faso, North Eastern Nigeria, South Sudan, and Yemen.

A new report issued by two United Nations agencies placed the world on a high level of preparedness against the risk of famine, and this report includes a clear warning.

The "Analysis of Acute Food Insecurity in Hotspots for the Purpose of Early Warning Report", published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Program, describes a toxic set of conflicts, economic deterioration, extreme weather events, and the COVID-19 pandemic that are pushing people further into humanitarian emergency in relation to a food-insecure situation.