New Age published an article on the findings of the 2022 Global Food Policy Report which finds that without any action taken to contain the impacts of climate change, nearly 1.5 crore people are at risk of hunger by 2030.
Bangladesh has the third largest population facing the risk of going hungry in South Asia, with India following with 9 crore people at risk of hunger and Pakistan with 4.5 crore people at risk of hunger by 2030, the report predicted. Without climate change, the report said that the number of people at risk of hunger would have been 69 lakh in Bangladesh, 4.5 crore in India, and 2.4 crore in Pakistan.
‘With the right step we can transform our vulnerability into resilience and then into prosperity,’ said Shahidur Rashid, director, South Asia, IFPRI. ‘Act now. Act on cutting greenhouse gas emissions,’ he said, adding that agriculture contributes about a third of greenhouse gas emissions in the world.