Cheap Food is Not the Way to End World Hunger

In 2015, the United Nations set a goal of ending hunger worldwide by 2030.  Five years into that project, the world is headed in the wrong direction.  According to the U.N.’s latest report, “The State of Food Security and Nutrition 2020,” the percent of the world’s population who is undernourished grew for the fifth year in a row.  8.9% of the world’s population, 690 million people, do not regularly get enough to eat.  To put that in perspective, that’s more than twice the entire population of the United States.  Michael Fahkri is an Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Oregon, and he is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food.  He joined the Monday Buzz on July 20, 2020.