Urgent action is needed now to reverse the rising trend in global hunger, made worse by the climate crisis. This is the meaning of the appeal launched by more than one hundred and fifty winners of the Nobel Prize or the World Food Prize (world food prize, which rewards work and actions for food and nutritional security), in an open letter published Tuesday January 14.
While chronic undernourishment affects more than 700 million people worldwide and a third of the world’s population is food insecure – that is, they do not have regular access to to a healthy and adequate diet – the planet is moving dangerously away from the goal of eradicating hunger that it had collectively set for 2030.
The call was coordinated by outgoing US Food Security Envoy Cary Fowler, one of the fathers of the World Agricultural Seed Bank from Svalbard, Norway, and co-winner of the World Food Prize in 2024. More of 120 Nobel Prize winners, including the Nigerian writers Wole Soyinka (literature, 1986) and the French Patrick Modiano (literature, 2014), the Dalai Lama (peace, 1989), the French scientists Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (medicine, 2008) and Emmanuelle Charpentier (chemistry, 2020) and the American economist Joseph E. Stiglitz (economics, 2001), have endorsed this text which calls for radically raising ambition levels and launching transformative research projects to improve access to food throughout the world. world.
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