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President Joe Biden laid out an ambitious goal at the White House’s first food conference in 50 years this week, committing $8 billion to address food insecurity with the aim of ending hunger in the U.S. by 2030. Globally, the path to tackling the growing issue remains much more dire, thanks to ongoing conflict and the ever-growing climate crisis. According to a new study from the United Nation’s World Food Program, the number of hunger hotspots have increased 10-fold in just five years. A record 970,000 people face catastrophic levels of hunger in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Somalia, and Yemen....
