https://www.scmp.com/rss/516909/feed Sachi Satapathy is the director of the Asia-based research evaluation agency AF Development Care in New Delhi, India en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Serious, even alarming, levels of hunger are eating away at the Global South, particularly in Africa and South Asia, according to the latest Global Hunger Index, as the undernourished masses grow to 735 million, up from an already worrying 572 million in 2017. Although the triple whammy of Covid-19, climate change and Russia’s war on Ukraine has intensified food insecurities worldwide, the impact has been most deeply felt in sub-Saharan Africa. The nine countries defined as having an “alarming”... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3237976/rich-are-getting-richer-more-people-are-going-hungry-global-south-why?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3237976/rich-are-getting-richer-more-people-are-going-hungry-global-south-why?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 18 Oct 2023 12:30:08 +0000