LONDON, July 6 —World hunger levels rose again last year after soaring in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with the Ukraine war and climate change threatening starvation and mass migration on an “unprecedented scale” this year, according to UN agencies.
Russia and Ukraine are the world’s third and fourth largest grains exporters, respectively, while Russia is also a key fuel and fertiliser exporter. It estimated that globally in 2020, 22 per cent of children under 5 were stunted while 6.7 per cent or 45 million suffered from wasting, a deadly form of malnutrition that increases the risk of death by up to 12 times.
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