A person dies of hunger in the world every four seconds, denounce more than 200 NGOs in an open letter – Le Monde

A person currently dies of hunger in the world every four seconds, denounced, Tuesday, September 20, more than two hundred non-governmental organizations (NGOs), which call on world leaders to “act to stop the global hunger crisis” . “Organizations from 75 countries have signed an open letter to express their outrage at the explosion in the number of hungry people and to make recommendations, as 345 million people worldwide suffer from acute hunger, a number which has more than doubled since 2019”, insist these 238 organizations in a press release. Read also: Article reserved for our subscribers Food crisis: ways to mitigate the shock “It is about the injustice of all humanity” This open letter is published on the occasion of the start of the annual meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN), where a large number of political leaders but also representatives of civil society gather for a week for what is considered to be the most important diplomatic gathering in the world. “It is inadmissible that with all the agricultural technology (…) today, we are still talking about famine in the 21st century,” said indignantly Mohanna Ahmed Ali Eljabaly of the Yemen Family Care Association, one of the signatories of the letter, and to add: “It is not about a country or a continent and hunger never has only one cause. It is about the injustice of all humanity. » Listen also How to successfully feed Africa Le Monde with AFP