Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2023

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations launched the Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2023: Statistics and Trends report.

The FAO report is a glimpse on the progress in meeting Sustainable Development Goals and World Health Assembly (WHA) global nutrition targets.

Findings

74.1% of Indians (2020 – 76.2%) were unable to afford a healthy diet in 2021, Pakistan (82.2%), and in Bangladesh (66.1%) of the population faced difficulties in finding healthy food.
Rising food costs, if not matched by rising income, will lead to more people unable to afford a healthy diet, the report warned.
The report said during the COVID-19 pandemic and the 5Fs crisis, Food, Feed, Fuel, Fertilizers, and Finance, the region witnessed harrowing statistics.
The latest statistics indicate that the region, with 370.7 million undernourished people, continues to represent half of the global total.
Similarly, the Asia and the Pacific region accounts for half of the world’s severe food insecurity, with more women than men being food insecure.
The report said 16.6% of the country’s population is undernourished.
The region, according to the report, had a lower prevalence for both moderate or severe and severe food insecurity when compared with the world prevalence since 2015.

Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)

Established - In 1945, in Quebec City, Canada, the first session of the newly created United Nations establishes the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

The FAO is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger.

Aim - It aims to achieve food security for all and make sure that people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives.

Members - With 195 members (194 countries and the European Union), FAO works in over 130 countries worldwide.

Headquarters - During its commencement Washington D.C. was designated as a temporary FAO headquarters, at present the headquarters is at Rome, Italy.

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