(VOVWORLD) - The US Department of Agriculture and the US Agency for International Development will distribute 1 billion USD worth of US commodities to countries with high hunger rates, the agencies said on Thursday.
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The countries that will receive the aid – including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Yemen, South Sudan, Sudan, and Haiti – are those most afflicted by hunger, according to the United Nations' World Food Programme.
Global hunger is getting worse, with 745 million more people moderately to severely hungry worldwide in 2023 than in 2015, leaving the world off-track to meet a sustainable development goal of ending hunger by 2030, according to the United Nations.
The causes of spreading hunger are conflicts, climate change, and slow recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN says.