Published 15 Jul,2021 via Daily News Egypt - A new report prepared by United Nations (UN) organisations gas warned that the continuous rise in hunger in the Arab region threatens efforts to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
This includes the region’s potential failure to reach the goal of ending hunger, the report noted, from which more than 51 million people in the Arab region suffer.
The Arab region ranked second in the world in terms of the prevalence of adult obesity in 2019, with 27% of the adult population suffering from obesity.
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