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FAO: Rising prices, food insecurity add to ranks of hungry
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FILE - A produce vendor waits for customers at a market in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Jan. 22, 2022. Growing numbers of people in Asia lack enough food to eat as food insecurity rises with higher prices and worsening poverty, according to a report by the Food and Agricultural Organization and other UN agencies released Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023. - photo by AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File
BANGKOK (AP) — Growing numbers of people in Asia lack enough to eat as food insecurity rises with higher prices and worsening poverty, according to a report released Tuesday by the Food and Agricultural Organization and other United Nations agencies. Nearly a half-billion people, more than eight in 10 of them in South Asia, were undernourished in 2021 and more than 1 billion faced moderate to severe food insecurity, the report said. For the world, the prevalence of food insecurity rose to more than 29% in 2021 from 21% in 2014.