The fight against hunger: what we have to change by 2030

The fight against hunger: what we have to change by 2030

The world is on the verge of a hunger crisis! An alarm sign from Berlin makes alarmingly high waves: The World Hunger Index 2024 has just published the terrifying numbers, and the result could not be darker. While the clock is repaying and the deadline is getting closer until 2030 to defeat hunger worldwide, reality looks completely different.

by 2030 the nations have undertaken to end hunger once and for all. But what do we see? Instead of a turn towards a sustainable agricultural economy that produces food for all people, we experience constant stagnation! Hunger has only been reduced minimally since 2016, and the majority of the earth threatens to become more and more an illusion!

The roots of the problem

Why has so little happened since the successes from 2000 to 2016? Devastating climate consequences are responsible for this. Drinking and flooded fields increase the yield on the soil, while conflicts in crisis areas such as the Gaza Strip and Sudan use hunger as a perfidious tool. It is not only natural events that bring us into this devastating location, but also the failure of a global agricultural turn!

Where is the agricultural ecological turn that the World Agricultural Council suggested in 2008? Science has long since uncovered the key strategies to combat hunger. Instead, we experience how investments in the armaments industry rise, while the German federal government radically saves development cooperation and humanitarian aid! Where's the responsibility?

A call to action

The failure of our governments is not just a national, but a global failure! Time is urgent, and it is high time that politics not only uses hunger as a headline, but also finally takes the right steps! Every day on which nothing happens costs human life. The world urgently needs a change in agricultural policy - now!