The 2023 Global Hunger Index (GHI) shows that, after many years of advancement up to 2015, progress against hunger worldwide remains largely at a standstill. As the effects of crises multiply and intensify, more and more people are experiencing severe hunger, with the situation expected to worsen throughout the year.
Large demographic groups such as women and youth are carrying the burden of these crises. This year's GHI report considers the ways in which current food systems are failing young people. In their essay for this report, Wendy Geza and Mendy Ndlovu, two scholars from South Africa, write from the perspective of the current generation of youth. They note that today's youth are poised to inherit food systems that are unsustainable, inequitable, non-inclusive, and increasingly vulnerable to the dangerous effects of climate change. The actions we take now--and those we fail to take--will determine future food system outcomes, but it is today's young people who will live with these outcomes for decades to come.

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