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State of Food and Agriculture Report 2023
November 16 , 2023
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- The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released a new report titled ‘The State of Food and Agriculture 2023’.
- Approximately 29.6% of the global population, corresponding to 2.4 billion people, experienced moderate or severe food insecurity in 2022.
- Among them, roughly 900 million individuals (11.3% of the global population) faced severe food insecurity.
- Among the nine South Asian countries, India had the third highest prevalence of undernourishment (233.9 million) in the total population, after Afghanistan and Pakistan,
- The biggest hidden costs (more than 70 percent) are driven by unhealthy diets, high in ultra-processed foods, fats and sugars.
- These costs reach over USD 7 trillion annually and have far-reaching consequences.
- The majority of hidden costs were generated in upper-middle-income (39%) and high-income countries (36%), with lower-middle-income countries at 22% and low-income countries at 3%.
- India's total hidden costs in agrifood systems were approximately USD 1.1 trillion, ranking as the third-largest globally after China and the United States.
- The burden of disease (productivity losses from dietary patterns) accounted for the largest share (60%) of hidden costs in India.
- It is followed by social costs of poverty (14%) and environmental costs from nitrogen emissions (13%).
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