According to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), some 820 million people around the world are experiencing hunger - consuming an insufficient amount of calories (dietary energy) for a normal, active life for a long period during 2018. According to an FAO analysis (in April 2020), in the absence of timely and effective policies, millions more are likely to join the ranks of the hungry as a result of the COVID-19-triggered recession. That number will vary according to the severity of economic contractions, ranging from 14.4 million to 38.2 million, or even 80.3 million more hungry people should there be a contraction of 2, 5, or 10 percentage points, respectively, in all 101 net food-importing countries' GDP growth. The analysis indicates that the world is faced not with a food crisis of a few months, but a crisis with potentially serious consequences in the long run. At the end of 2019, 135 million people across 55 countries and territories were estimated to be experiencing crisis levels of acute food insecurity according to the 2020 FAO Global Food Crises report released in April.
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