In 2018, some 113 million people in 53 countries around the world experienced acute food insecurity and required emergency humanitarian aid, nutritional assistance and support to strengthen their livelihoods, according to the World Food Crisis Report published on Tuesday 2 April in Brussels by the Food Security Information Network, of which the EU and UN agencies are members.
This figure is down slightly (124 million in 2017), but the plight of hunger affects a larger number of...