Food is the palate’s poetry, the body’s fuel, and a shared language transcending cultures… when people can afford it.
As Visual Capitalist’s Pallavi Rao details below, the World Health Organization found that the COVID-19 pandemic and war in Ukraine pushed 122 million more people into food insecurity between 2019 and 2022. Higher food prices, combined with increasing poverty, have resulted in rising food unaffordability, especially in certain regions of the world.
A person is food insecure when they lack regular access to enough safe and nutritious food for normal growth and development and an active and healthy life.
Read more: Visualizing Food Unaffordability Across The World
