The share of people facing a “food crisis” in dozens of countries around the globe has doubled across the past decade, a new report finds – with the new data coming in the wake of figures that show that foreign aid has also fallen to a 10-year low.
The annual report, co-published by aid partners including the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) and the EU, also notes that for the first time in its ten-year history, two territories - Sudan and Gaza - were classified as being in a state of famine last year.
