FAO: The Cost of Healthy Diets Obstructs Global Nutrition Goals

The report emphasizes that the problem is not global food scarcity but sharply unequal purchasing power. While Asia and Latin America saw improvements in recent years, Sub Saharan Africa and low income countries experienced continuous deterioration since 2022. The world is not facing a single food crisis, but rather a widening divide between economies resilient enough to absorb inflationary shocks and structurally fragile ones lacking foreign currency reserves and import capacity. Food poverty, it argues, is a direct outcome of weak macroeconomic resilience, not merely high prices.