{"id":23505,"date":"2026-07-21T19:15:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T19:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/africa-overtakes-asia-as-continent-with-most-people-facing-hunger\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T19:15:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T19:15:48","slug":"africa-overtakes-asia-as-continent-with-most-people-facing-hunger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/africa-overtakes-asia-as-continent-with-most-people-facing-hunger\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa overtakes Asia as continent with most people facing hunger"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PARIS, July 21 — Africa has for the first time become the continent with the largest number of people facing hunger, a UN report said today, as a growing number of Africans have faced undernourishment.<\/p>\n

The UN’s annual report on food security and nutrition found that there has been gradual improvement towards reducing hunger overall in recent years, but that progress has been uneven.<\/p>\n

“The centre of gravity of hunger has shifted from Asia to Africa,” said David Laborde, director of the agrifood economics division at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).<\/p>\n

“Twenty-five years ago China still had a problem with hunger but they solved them; India also has a problem but they are putting lots of effort into actively resolving it,” he told AFP.<\/p>\n

The report, put together by the FAO and four other UN agencies, estimated that hunger affected 309 million people in Africa last year, or 20 per cent of the population.<\/p>\n

It was followed by Asia, where 292 million people were touched by hunger, or six per cent of the population.<\/p>\n

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Overall the proportion of the world population facing hunger decreased has decreased from 8.6 per cent in 2022 to 7.8 per cent in 2025, the UN agencies estimate.<\/p>\n

While that represents a drop in 43 million people to 645 million, the agencies noted that is still higher than before the Covid pandemic.<\/p>\n

The prevalence of undernourishment has also been on the rise in Africa since 2017, although the UN agencies said the most recent estimates point to signs of a turnaround in 2025.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile the percentage of people who cannot afford a healthy diet has increased in Africa since 2021, while it has decreased in other regions of the world.<\/p>\n

Two-thirds of Africans (66.6 per cent) cannot afford a healthy diet, more than double the level in Asia.<\/p>\n

The report encouraged African nations to prioritise transforming the animal source food sector, which is the most expensive food group in the region.<\/p>\n

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Africa has also been hit by severe climate-related shocks in recent years, and conflicts have aggravated the situation.<\/p>\n

“Conflicts like the one in Sudan… in the Democratic Republic of Congo, also weigh heavily on people who cannot access their land or no longer have any income,” said Laborde.<\/p>\n

The UN warned in May that 20 million people face acute food insecurity due to the war in Sudan.<\/p>\n

The UN also warned in June that a prolonged Middle East war could push millions more people into acute hunger.<\/p>\n

The impact of rising energy and fertiliser costs due to the war “remain limited for the moment”, Laborde said, but added the crisis is not yet over. — AFP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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PARIS, July 21 — Africa has for the first time become the continent with the largest number of people facing hunger, a UN report said today, as a growing number of Africans have faced undernourishment. The UN’s annual report on food security and nutrition found that there has been gradual improvement towards reducing hunger overall…<\/p>\n

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