food poverty
![CC License By the end of 2022, 860 million people could live in extreme poverty.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/oxfam_intermon.jpg?itok=zx6STLow&c=1a28751733fb6677c544717fa8bc62e6)
In total, by the end of 2022, 860 million people could be in a situation caused by inequalities that have been exacerbated by the pandemic, inflation and war in Ukraine, according to a report by Intermón Oxfam.
![Action Against Hunger The effects of the health crisis could raise the number of people suffering from food insecurity to 130 million.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/the_health_crisis_effects_could_raise_the_number_of_people_suffering_food_insecurity_to_130_million._font-_accio_contra_la_fam_.jpeg?itok=34ASkPrg)
Action Against Hunger is concerned about the economic and social consequences that could raise the number of people living in a state of severe food insecurity to over one billion in the foreseeable future.
![Food waste. Photo: U.S Department of Agriculture, Flickr](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/food_waste_2.jpg?itok=d2k3hS4H)
weSAVEeat brings shops and users together in order to sell the surplus of the day at cheaper prices.
![Rice. Photo: Wikimedia](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/rice2.jpg?itok=PD48FiDi)
The initiative was launched by the United Nations on 2012. Its main goal is to eradicate hunger in 13 years in compliance with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
![Xavier Montagut, president of the Xarxa de Consum Solidari (Solidarity Consumption Network)](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/xmontagut.png?itok=3Ld8b0bP)
The president of the Xarxa de Consum Solidari (Solidarity Consumption Network) argues that tackling hunger with leftovers is not effective to combat this problem or to reduce food waste.