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Will there be a famine in 2023?

As many as 50m people will begin 2023 on the brink of famine. And with governments still reeling from the covid-19 pandemic and grappling with slowing economic growth, many of those people could be starving in the coming months. Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.

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T HE WORLD is entering 2023 in a hunger crisis. The World Food Programme ( WFP ), a UN agency that co-ordinates the distribution of food aid, reckons the number of people facing acute food insecurity jumped from 282m at the end of 2021 to a record 345m in 2022. As many as 50m people will begin 2023 on the brink of famine. And with governments still reeling from the covid-19 pandemic and grappling with slowing economic growth, many of those people could be starving in the coming months. Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android Your browser does not support the

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Women are worst affected. They are more likely to be poor and to forgo food in order to feed their families. The FAO says that in 2021, 31.9% of women in the world were moderately or severely “food insecure” compared with 27.6% of men, and that gap is widening. A survey by Care, an NGO , shows how gender inequality and food insecurity collide. In Somalia, men said they were eating smaller meals, but women said they were skipping meals altogether. The report quotes a woman in Nigeria. “We have reduced the amount of food for everyone,” she says, “except my husband who is the man of the house.” In children, hunger stunts brain development and reduces immunity. Just a few months of poor nutrition in childhood can reduce a person’s hopes of living a healthy, productive life. In a nursery for underprivileged children in São Paulo, the headteacher, Claudia Russo, sees more and more infants arriving for breakfast in the morning having eaten nothing since the lunch the nursery provided the day before. Those children are smaller, sicker and slower as a result. For them, the effects of the current food crisis will linger long after supply chains have been rebuilt and food prices have fallen.■

Avantika Chilkoti: International correspondent, The Economist

This article appeared in the International section of the print edition of The World Ahead 2023 under the headline “No food on the table”

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