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Neighborhood residents and reggae music lovers enjoyed a concert performance by the Eclipse International Reggae Band at Bladensburg Waterfront Park on July 10. Maryland Physicians Care offered information on Medicaid benefits and healthy lifestyles. (Robert R. Roberts/The Washington Informer)
STARVING from Page 37 exclusively breastfed worldwide in 2020. However, this still remains short of the 50% target set by the 2030 SDGs. The report also highlighted the damaging impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has disrupted the supply of staple cereals, oilseeds and fertilizer from both nations. It has also harmed international supply chains, provoking soaring prices and ready-to-use therapeutic food for severely malnourished children. Supply chains are already being adversely affected by increasingly frequent extreme climate events, especially in low-income coun-
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tries, and have potentially sobering implications for global food security and nutrition. “This report repeatedly highlights the intensification of these major drivers of food insecurity and malnutrition: conflict, climate extremes and economic shocks, combined with growing inequalities,” the five UN agencies wrote in this year’s foreword. “The issue at stake is not whether adversities will continue to occur or not but how we must take bolder action to build resilience against future shocks.” FAO Director-General QU Dongyu noted that low-income countries where agriculture is key to the economy, jobs and rural livelihoods, “have little public
resources to repurpose. FAO is committed to continue working together with these countries to explore opportunities for increasing the provision of public services for all actors across agri-food systems.” “These are depressing figures for humanity,” IFAD President Gilbert Houngbo said. “We continue to move away from our goal of ending hunger by 2030. The ripple effects of the global food crisis will most likely worsen the outcome again next year. We need a more intense approach to end hunger and IFAD stands ready to do its part by scaling up its operations and impact,” he said. WI
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