Covid can't be allowed stop fight against global hunger

It is a scandal that so many people are still hungry in the 21st century and we are further than ever from our target of Zero Hunger by 2030

A malnourished boy sits on a hospital bed at the Aslam Health Center, Hajjah, Yemen. A UN report has found that 690m people last year — almost one in 10 of the world’s population (8.9%) — were undernourished. Picture: AP

A UN report published last week received little media coverage in Ireland and was overshadowed by the World Health Organisation’s update on the global escalation of the Covid-19 pandemic. 

Yet the level of suffering and hardship outlined in the 'State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World' report for 2019 is every bit as shocking and in need of public attention and action.