Diversified Agri-food Systems: Bastions of biodiversity, nutrition and...
(WorldNews Italy)

According to The State of the Food Security and Nutrition in the World released last year (SOFI 2018), global hunger and malnutrition has increased considerably since 2016, reaching 821 million undernourished people - approximately one person out of every nine in the world. This means that the number of people suffering from hunger has returned to levels from almost a decade ago. The increased number of people suffering from hunger and malnutrition has been the result of climate variability and exposure to complex, frequent and intense climate extremes. Climate variability and extreme climatic conditions have repercussions for food utilization as they harm agricultural...