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What some people in St. Louis are doing

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Graphic that brings context to food insecurity in MO

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Helps give world context as to what other continents and countries are doing about zero hunger goal

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The goal of the Dakar 2 summit is to rally backing for its structural transformation of agriculture in Africa. The region has of late attracted renewed global interest, however, the fallout of Russia's invasion of Ukraine has threatened to topple an already fragile situation.

The meeting - themed 'Unleashing Africa's Food Potential' - is being co-convened by the AfDB and the International Fund for Agricultural Research in Dakar, Senegal, from 25-27 January.

The high-level meeting is being hosted by Senegal President Macky Sall, AfDB's president Dr Akinwumi Adesina, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) president Alvaro Lario and the FAO's director general Qu Dongyum and is expected to attract African heads of State, ministers of Finance and Agriculture, as well as several global development partners.

Already hampered by a deeply inbred poverty and starvation state of affairs, the fallout of Russia's invasion of Ukraine has resulted in extreme price shocks and a disruption of the supply chains of various commodities across Africa, ranging from wheat and sunflower oil to crude oil. The region has experienced a significant rise of inflation - particularly the cost of food production, everyday shelf prices and fuel expenses. The poorest are the hardest hit as a large proportion of their consumption expenditure is on food and transport.

Inexcusable situation

"It is inexcusable that a continent with 65% of the world's most arable land and abundant water resources, would still suffer from food insecurity," ​ said Adesina.]

"The summit is a critical global effort to systematically and proactively help Africa achieve Zero Hunger." ​

According to the Bank chief, "We have the technologies, platforms, and resources to change the status quo by energising the private sector, scaling up food production for millions of African farmers, unlocking finance for farmers and agricultural SMEs, and transforming the agriculture and food value chains." ​

While congratulating the AfDB on its historic and largest-ever ADF16 donor replenishment, IFAD's Lario acknowledged the bank's leadership and the decades-old partnership between the International Fund and the Bank.

The African Development Bank Group and IFAD account for 55% of all multi-development assistance to agriculture in Africa. As co-conveners of the Africa Food Summit in 2023, AfDB and IFAD will work on policy frameworks and food and agriculture delivery compacts.

Clear targets

According to the conveners, performance-based compacts with African governments, development partners and the private sector that meet clear food self-sufficiency targets will be at the core of the Dakar 2 Africa Food Summit.

FAO director general Qu Dongyu said long-term partnerships and joint resources with the AfDB will help leverage and catalyse agricultural projects across the continent.

"We must work together on the whole agricultural value chain of food production, food processing, and food marketing in a complementary, pragmatic and results-oriented way. Ensuring food security is the end game," ​he added.

Recent collaborations between FAO and the AfDB include the identification and preparation of projects in Tanzania and Equatorial Guinea; technical development of blue economy programmes in Cabo Verde, Côte d'Ivoire and Morocco; and climate-smart agricultural training and multi-stakeholder dialogues on the Bank's Desert to Power and Great Green Wall initiatives.

The January 2023 Africa Food Summit will also focus on scaling access to technologies and finance for agriculture SMEs and smallholder farmers, increased productivity and the development of seed, storage, electricity, transport logistics and infrastructure.

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Zero Hunger in Africa is within reach: Actionable goal or fleeting NY Resolution?

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Be it a feasible game plan or just a pipedream, the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) is determined to make good on its pledge to eradicate hunger in Africa by 2030 by mobilising political support ahead of the African Food Summit.

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Article that gives some insightful ideas on possible action

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Kid's Cafe program helps combat childhood hunger across northern Nevada

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In this week's edition of Souper Bowl of Caring, we're introducing you to the cornerstone for helping battle childhood hunger across northern Nevada.For thousan

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An article about the data and actual facts depending on the past year.

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Despite hopes that food security -- which suffered major setbacks in 2020 -- would start to recover in 2021, the latest State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report (SOFI) shows that 2021 brought further setbacks.

World hunger and severe food insecurity grew, making the world's goal of achieving "zero hunger" by 2030 even more unlikely. In fact, according to current projections from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 8% of the world's population will still be undernourished in 2030 -- just as much as when these goals were first set in 2015.

The report released in July draws on data from many sources, including food security data collected for the FAO in the Gallup World Poll*, to provide the latest update on the world's progress toward ending hunger and ensuring food security in the second full year of the pandemic.

Key Findings

Although the pace slowed, the proportion of people facing hunger continued to rise in 2021.

After remaining basically unchanged for five years, the prevalence of undernourishment** -- the FAO's traditional indicator of the extent of hunger -- increased from 8.0% to 9.3% between 2019 and 2020. It kept rising in 2021, although at a slower pace than the year before, reaching 9.8%.

Hunger continued to increase in most regions of the world. As a share of its population, Africa continued to bear most of the burden, with one in five people -- or an estimated 278 million -- facing hunger in 2021. However, more than half of the people in the world affected by hunger in 2021 -- 425 million -- live in Asia.

The war in Ukraine could make hunger worse for millions.

The war in Ukraine, which involves two of the world's biggest producers in agriculture and staple cereals, could drive hunger numbers even higher in the short and medium term.

FAO simulations suggest that in a severe-shock scenario, 13 million more people could be undernourished in 2022 -- and reach as high as 19 million more in 2023. Populations already facing hunger and food crises -- in sub-Saharan Africa, the Near East and North Africa -- are most at risk of higher undernourishment.

Overall food insecurity remained mostly unchanged, but severe food insecurity increased.

Moderate or severe food insecurity at the global level has slowly been rising since 2014, when the FAO first started collecting data annually using the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) informed by Gallup's World Poll and other sources. But in 2020, moderate or severe food insecurity rose nearly as much as it had in the previous five years -- combined.

The 2021 data show overall food insecurity remained stable, but severe food insecurity -- which means people had run out of food or, at worst, gone a day without eating -- rose. Severe food insecurity increased from 10.9% in 2020 to 11.7% in 2021. An estimated 923.7 million people faced severe food insecurity in 2021, up 73.6 million from just the year before.

Moderate and severe food insecurity increased most in Africa, where more than one-third of the total number of people facing severe food insecurity live. An estimated 322 million Africans in 2021 were facing severe food insecurity -- 21.5 million more than in 2020 and 58 million more than in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Food insecurity also continued to worsen in Latin America and the Caribbean. Roughly 10 million more people were facing severe food insecurity in 2021 than the year before -- and almost 30 million more were facing severe food insecurity than in 2019. In the region, severe food insecurity has nearly doubled since 2014.

The gender gap in food security widened even further in 2021: 31.9% of women were moderately or severely food insecure, compared with 27.6% of men. In every region except Africa, food security among men improved, while it worsened among women in every region except Asia.

The increase in the gender gap globally from 2020 to 2021 was driven largely by the widening differences in Latin America and the Caribbean, where the gap between men and women increased from 9.4 percentage points in 2020 to 11.3 points in 2021. The gap also expanded in Asia, from 2.7 points in 2020 to 4.4 points in 2021.

Implications

Just eight years away from 2030, the latest SOFI report shows the world continues to be headed in the wrong direction in its fight to end world hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition. Although the pace in the increase in hunger slowed in 2021, it continued to rise, and hunger affected tens of millions more people than it did the year before.

The increase in global hunger in 2021 reflects the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the unequal pattern of economic recovery that took place last year. Many of the people most affected by the pandemic did not recover the incomes that they lost, which exacerbated existing inequalities and made food security situations worse for populations that were already struggling before the pandemic.

Finding a path forward in these challenging and uncertain times -- as food prices rise and recession looms -- will require governments to start rethinking how they allocate their funding and use the resources they already have to fight hunger.

Read the full report.

Sara Viviani is a member of the FAO's Voices of the Hungry project team.
Julie Ray is a writer and editor at Gallup.
Anne Kepple contributed to this article.

* The data for the FAO's Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) are collected directly from respondents to surveys, including the Gallup World Poll and other sources.

** FAO uses different data sources to estimate the different parameters of the model for the prevalence of undernourishment. Prevalence of undernourishment are nowcasts based on data on food availability and access to food at the country level.

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World Hunger, Severe Food Insecurity Grew in 2021

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Despite hopes that food security -- which suffered major setbacks in 2020 -- would start to recover in 2021, the latest State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report (SOFI) shows that 2021 brought further setbacks. World hunger and severe food insecurity grew, making the world's goal of achieving "zero hunger" by 2030 even more unlikely.

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Couple in St. Louis that has been using their kitchen to feed homeless

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Wednesday, January 4th 2023, 10:29 AM EST

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St. Louis County couple convert home into community kitchen for homeless, 150,000 hot meals served

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It talks about what the goal is and like gives background on what is happening.

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Food insecurity in St. Louis having to deal with race (in households with kids under 18)

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Child Food Insecurity measures the percentage of households with children under age 18 in the City of St. Louis that receive food stamp benefits

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More about how to make beneficial partnerships and how those will help to alleviate the issue

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Power and Partnership with Nicole Robinson and Melvin Thompson

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Listen to this episode from Elevating Voices, Ending Hunger on Spotify. In this episode, we focus on the importance of sharing power and building equitable partnerships to end hunger. To discuss, host Ami McReynods sits down with Nicole Robinson, the chief partnership and programs officer at Greater Chicago Food Depository, and Melvin Thompson, the executive director of community development organization located in Chicago's south side.

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Podcast about helpful partnerships with communities and getting people engaging with the issue

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Engaging Community to Start a Movement with HungerMitao

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Listen to this episode from Elevating Voices, Ending Hunger on Spotify. Anna and Raj Asava knew what hunger looked like in their home country of India but were completely unaware of what was hidden in plain sight in their community in the U.S.

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Talks about despite all the efforts to push everything forward and end hunger it seems to be moving backwards and the hunger rate is increasing

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World is Moving Backwards in Efforts to End Hunger, SOFI 2022 Warns | News | SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD

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The 2022 edition of the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report warns that "the world is moving in the wrong direction" on the SDG targets to end hunger, food insecurity, and all forms of malnutrition.

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Talks about the real causes behind food insecurity and actual solutions to the issue

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The Shocking Truth About Food Insecurity | Clancy Cash Harrison | TEDxWilmingtonWomen

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Talks about the steps that world leaders are making to accomplish zero hunger.

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Since we kinda decided to venture into helping out with food stuff, we can get better ideas by reading this.

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Goal 2 | Department of Economic and Social Affairs

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End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

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Shares idea that food insecurity affects people close to us and not necessarily the minorities and small groups we see in graphs

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Food insecurity on college campuses - Shannon Que #shorts #tedx