Ireland's agriculture industry can contribute to eliminating global hunger
Ethiopian refugees who fled the Tigray conflict, receive food at a transit centre in Sudan's border town of Hamdayit in November. Picture: Ashraf Shazly/AFP via Getty Images.
800 million people across the world experienced food hunger during 2020; a child dies every five seconds from food hunger; and the world is losing the equivalent of one football pitch every minute to tropical deforestation.
These were just some of the stark global realities that Agriculture Minister Charlie McConaloue faced when he addressed the pre-summit of the UN Food Systems Summit in Rome earlier this week.
