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UN: 2.3 billion people severely or moderately hungry in 2021

FILE - An Ethiopian woman stands by sacks of wheat to be distributed by the Relief Society of Tigray in the town of Agula, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia Saturday, May 8, 2021. World hunger rose in 2021 with around 2.3 billion people facing moderate or severe difficulty obtaining food -- and that was before the Ukraine war which has sparked increases in the cost of grain, fertilizer and energy, according to a U.N. report launched Wednesday, July 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File) FILE - Sergei, 11, waits his turn to receive donated food during an aid humanitarian distribution in Bucha, in the outskirts of Kyiv, on Tuesday, April 19, 2022. World hunger rose in 2021 with around 2.3 billion people facing moderate or severe difficulty obtaining food -- and that was before the Ukraine war which has sparked increases in the cost of grain, fertilizer and energy, according to a U.N. report launched Wednesday, July 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)