The Impossible Job of Ending World Hunger

At that time, there were 80 million who you described as marching towards starvation. And yet the figure now, who you would classify in that way, is 350 million. Was it ever solvable, or is it just an impossible job? Sarah, it was, and it is. Unfortunately, when I took this role,. I thought we could put the World Food Programme out of business. There were 80 million people in extreme hunger. But what happened? We had war after war, then climate shocks on top of that, then COVID with the economic devastation. Now, we're facing 350 million people that literally don't know where their next meal is coming from., she says.