With climate change and health crises rightfully receiving international attention, the time has come to focus on hunger as a top priority. WHO regards hunger and malnutrition as the gravest threat to public health, and climate change threatens to further destabilise already fragile food-production systems.
Josette SheeranEvery 10 seconds we lose a child to hunger. This is more than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.
Josette SheeranIf a child in its first thousand days - from conception to two years old - does not have adequate nutrition, the damage is irreversible.
Josette SheeranEighty percent of the people in the world have no food safety net. When disaster strikes â the economy gets blown, people lose a job, floods, war, conflict, bad governance, all of those things â there is nothing to fall back on.
Josette Sheeran