Since 2014 the number of undernourished people in the world has continued to increase. If this trend continues the Sustainable Development Goal 2, (Zero Hunger) will not be met and Africa will contain the greatest number of underfed people. Already, over half of Africa’s population is food insecure because of environmental degradation, conflicts, climate change and structural drivers of inequality. In 2019, close to 750 million – or nearly one in ten people in the world – were exposed to severe levels of food insecurity. The COVID-19 pandemic added up to 132 million people to the total number of undernourished in the world in 2020 and has exposed the already broken food systems (in every region of the world, healthy diets are unaffordable to many people, especially to those who are experiencing poverty). However, the pandemic has also given visibility to community food innovations and opened up opportunities for transformation of food systems.

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