NO MORE GREEN REVOLUTIONS
The Covid-19 pandemic has made hunger worse: the number of people without access to adequate food in 2020 was 2.37 billion – up 320 million in a year. The prevalence of undernourishment – a measure of how much of the world suffers from an acute form of food deprivation – increased by 1.5 per cent to nearly 10 per cent. In 2015, international leaders committed to ending poverty and hunger. But at current rates, the number of malnourished people in 2030 won’t be zero, it will be 660 million.1
In a bid to reverse these trends, members of the World Economic Forum, the Rockefeller and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundations, government officials and policy experts around the world will attend a Food Systems Summit under the aegis of the United Nations in New York this September. It will be led
