Headline : Bending the Hunger Curve Down

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“As food prices hit record highs following Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, we rushed to get high quality seeds, fertilizer and financing to the markets and into the hands of some of the world's poorest farmer farmers,” said USAID Assistant to the Administrator Esposito.

“After more than a decade of progress fighting chronic hunger and malnutrition after the 2009 global food crisis, a series of unprecedented shocks have reversed many of our gains, including COVID-19,” said Dina Esposito, Assistant to the Administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development's Bureau for Resilience, Environment, and Food Security.

The war in Ukraine, ongoing conflicts in Sudan, Ethiopia, Yemen and now Gaza means that today, 735 million people are chronically hungry, said Ms. Esposito in recent Congressional testimony:

“That's 120 million more than in 2019. Pre-COVID, 140 million people in the most vulnerable countries are acutely hungry. They are victims of conflict or compound crises that have upended their livelihoods, and they must depend on humanitarian assistance to survive.”

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