Date | 19-20 October 2022

Venue | Nairobi, Kenya

This will be a Hybrid event

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The number of people affected by hunger and malnutrition continues to rise. The State of Food and Nutrition Security in the World 2021 Report estimates that the Prevalence of Undernourishment (PoU) increased from 8.4 percent to about 9.9 percent between 2019 and 2020. The report further highlights that between 720 and 811 million people in the world faced hunger in 2020. The problems of hunger and malnutrition are more acute in Africa where 21 percent of the population was facing hunger in Africa in 2020 – more than double the proportion of any other region. This represents an increase of 3 percentage points in one year. Globally, compared with 2019, 46 million more people in Africa, almost 57 million more in Asia, and about 14 million more in Latin America and the Caribbean were affected by hunger in 2020.

Undoubtedly, the unfortunate COVID-19 situation has played a role in the increase of the number of hungry and malnourished people in the world as it ripples through economies, distorting food markets and income-generating activities of people. Of major and emerging concern especially, are the increasing levels of overweight and obesity in many urban and rural setting in Africa. The co-existence of undernourishment and over nourishment have a lot to do with food systems and equitable access to foods of nutritious value. The private sector has a huge role to play to transform food systems and make them able to deliver diversified and affordable healthy food choices for consumers. The private sector is, therefore, a key accelerator for achieving the Zero Hunger of the United Nations (UN), Com- prehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP)/Malabo targets, and most importantly, supporting post -UN Food Systems Summit activities.

For more Information, contact:
Kefilwe Moalosi - KefilweM@nepad.org or 
Sukati Mphumuzi - Mphumuzi.Sukati@fao.org