Act now before Ukraine war plunges millions into malnutrition

Osendarp, Saskia; Verburg, Gerda; Bhutta, Zulfiqar A.; Black, Robert E.; de Pee, Saskia; Fabrizio, Cecilia; Headey, Derek D.; Heidkamp, Rebecca A.; Laborde Debucquet, David; and Ruel, Marie T. 2022. Act now before Ukraine war plunges millions into malnutrition. Nature 604: 620-624. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01076-5

As the devastation in Ukraine continues to unfold, many of the warnings about the global food crisis precipitated by the war have focused on the risks of famine and severe food insecurity. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, for instance, projected last month that between 8 million and 13 million more people could become undernourished in 2022–23 — meaning that they will be unable to acquire enough food to meet the daily minimum energy requirements over one year. There are already more than 800 million undernourished people globally.