Progress in ending world hunger set back by global crises

FILE - Mothers wait at a malnutrition centre to register for food aid for their children in the Tiamushro camp for internally displaced persons (IDP) in Kadugli, Sudan, on June 17, 2024.

Progress toward achieving a world free of hunger has stalled, while efforts to improve the nutritional status of billions of people have been setback 15 years as global crises deepen in some of the world's poorest countries, according to a new report published Wednesday on the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World.