Rising food costs, climate change and dramatic changes in land tenure are increasing the reality of hunger and leaving food-insecure people feeling they “are rated as the cheapest of the cheapest”.
This is the experience of Oxfam’s work in more than 90 counties globally and the damning findings from "Hidden Hunger in South Africa; The Faces of Hunger and Malnutrition in a Food-Secure Nation", a report commissioned by Oxfam in South Africa to assess the current state of hunger across the country.
In 1996 the World Food Summit established a goal to reduce the world’s hungry to 420 million by 2015. Far from this goal, 805 million face daily hunger across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
See full Press Release: Hungry being squeezed by climate change, rising commodity costs and land exploitation | Oxfam International
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