#JustIn: Increasing risk of hunger set to spread

Acute food insecurity is set to potentially increase in magnitude and severity, a new United Nations early warning report has found. The report shows that deepening economic shocks continue to drive low- and middle-income nations deeper into crisis, and warns that a likely El Niño climatic phenomenon is raising fears of climate extremes in vulnerable countries around the globe. The report also found that many hotspots are facing growing hunger crises and highlights the worrying multiplier effect that simultaneous and overlapping shocks are having on acute food insecurity. Conflict, climate extremes and economic shocks continue to drive more and more communities into crisis.