AROUND 3 BILLION PEOPLE WORLD OVER CAN NOT AFFORD A HEALTH DIET- WORLD BANK

 2 OUT 5 PEOPLE WORLDWIDE CAN NOT AFFORD A HEALTHY DIET 

....Urgent action is needed to address food insecurity in 2022.

By Alfonso Kasongo

With the rising threats on World food security, the World Bank has estimated that around 3 billion people in the world can not afford a healthy diet, the situation it said needed quick remedy. 

The Bank discloses that 2 out of 5 people currently are unable to have a healthy diet reiterating an urgent action to address food insecurity in 2022.

The World financial institution notes that the current food situation is slowly infringing people their basic need.

"Food security is a basic human need, but two in five people – or around 3 billion citizens of our planet – cannot afford a healthy diet."

The Bank, however, observes that diet costs have risen in recent months, with food price inflation above 5% in many countries as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate shocks, the war in Ukraine among many challenging other factors.


To this effect the World Bank is tomorrow, July, 14 expected to organise a virtual meeting to discuss the cost and affordable  healthy diet so to help countries build food systems that able to feed everyone. 

The event will bring together a panel of experts from countries, international agencies, and academia to discuss new food security indicators on diet costs and affordability and their use in guiding agricultural and food policy both globally and domestically.

These indicators were developed by the Food Prices for Nutrition project by Tufts University, the International Food Policy Research Institute, and the World Bank, in collaboration with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. 

They are featured in the United Nations flagship annual State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report, launched on July 6th, and can be used to inform and monitor a wide range of programs at the global, national, and subnational levels including those focused on Zero Hunger – the second of the Sustainable Development Goals.

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