FAO in Sri Lanka

Number of hungry in Asia-Pacific swells by more than 50 million since the arrival of COVID-19

15/12/2021

The state of food security and nutrition in Asia and the Pacific has worsened, as more than 375 million people in the region faced hunger in 2020, an increase of 54 million over the previous year, according to a joint report just published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).