An Alliance for Global Action

Malnutrition and hunger is a global health crisis. Despite being preventable, it takes a child's life every 11 seconds.
United Against Malnutrition & Hunger (UAMH) exists to raise the profile of global malnutrition and hunger with UK political audiences and to secure greater action from the UK government to combat it.
About the Alliance
“Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all mankind with the necessities of life? There is no deficit in human resources. The deficit is in human will.”
Martin Luther King Jr, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 1964
“Zero hunger would boost economic growth, reduce poverty and safeguard the environment. It would foster peace and stability.”
Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General 2007-2016
“Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere.”
Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary-General 1997-2006

“Combating malnutrition is vital for a healthy population and healthy economies – malnutrition translates into a loss of 10% of GDP for countries most affected. It’s a good investment – every pound, euro or dollar we invest pays for itself 23 times over.”

 

 

Baroness Chapman of Darlington, Minister of State (International Development, Latin America and Caribbean)

“Over 30 million people don’t know where their next meal is coming from. Famine is ultimately the greatest political failure anyone could preside over. There is an opportunity for the UK to step up, but it’s going to have to step up with actions, not just words.”

David Miliband, President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, and former UK Foreign Secretary
“The rapid rise in global malnutrition should concern us all. Let’s be clear what we are talking about: children going hungry; stunted development; famine raising its head again.”
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton, former UK Prime Minister and former UK Foreign Secretary

“Investment in nutrition has a key multiplying effect. It plays a critical role in health, education advancement and gender equality. And it is fundamental to the achievement of most of the SDGs.”

Lord Collins of Highbury, Government Spokesperson for Equalities and Prime Minister's Special Representative for Preventing Violence in Conflict

“I’ve discovered how important nutrition is to development and the development of the community. It enables children to live healthily, to access education and to develop the rural economy.”

Monica Harding MP, Liberal Democrat Spokesperson on International Development

“It is frankly obscene, that in the 21st century and in our world of plenty, children are today slowly starving to death.”

Sir Andrew Mitchell MP, former Deputy Foreign Secretary
“One in 10 people on the planet already suffer from chronic hunger and if climate change accelerates, it will get worse.”
Antonio Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General
“Massive hunger poses a threat to the stability of governments, societies, and borders. People who are starving, who have no incomes, who can’t care for their families, are left with feelings of hopelessness and desperation. And so we know that desperation of that magnitude sows seeds of its own—of tension, conflict.”
Hillary Clinton, United States Secretary of State 2009-2013

“No social system, ideology or principle of justice can tolerate a world in which the spiritual and physical potential of hundreds of millions is stunted from elemental hunger or inadequate nutrition.”

 

Henry Kissinger, United States Secretary of State 1973-1977, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 1973
“Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all mankind with the necessities of life? There is no deficit in human resources. The deficit is in human will.”
Martin Luther King Jr, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 1964
“Zero hunger would boost economic growth, reduce poverty and safeguard the environment. It would foster peace and stability.”
Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General 2007-2016
“Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere.”
Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary-General 1997-2006

“Combating malnutrition is vital for a healthy population and healthy economies – malnutrition translates into a loss of 10% of GDP for countries most affected. It’s a good investment – every pound, euro or dollar we invest pays for itself 23 times over.”

 

 

Baroness Chapman of Darlington, Minister of State (International Development, Latin America and Caribbean)

“Over 30 million people don’t know where their next meal is coming from. Famine is ultimately the greatest political failure anyone could preside over. There is an opportunity for the UK to step up, but it’s going to have to step up with actions, not just words.”

David Miliband, President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, and former UK Foreign Secretary
“The rapid rise in global malnutrition should concern us all. Let’s be clear what we are talking about: children going hungry; stunted development; famine raising its head again.”
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton, former UK Prime Minister and former UK Foreign Secretary

“Investment in nutrition has a key multiplying effect. It plays a critical role in health, education advancement and gender equality. And it is fundamental to the achievement of most of the SDGs.”

Lord Collins of Highbury, Government Spokesperson for Equalities and Prime Minister's Special Representative for Preventing Violence in Conflict

“I’ve discovered how important nutrition is to development and the development of the community. It enables children to live healthily, to access education and to develop the rural economy.”

Monica Harding MP, Liberal Democrat Spokesperson on International Development

“It is frankly obscene, that in the 21st century and in our world of plenty, children are today slowly starving to death.”

Sir Andrew Mitchell MP, former Deputy Foreign Secretary
“One in 10 people on the planet already suffer from chronic hunger and if climate change accelerates, it will get worse.”
Antonio Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General
“Massive hunger poses a threat to the stability of governments, societies, and borders. People who are starving, who have no incomes, who can’t care for their families, are left with feelings of hopelessness and desperation. And so we know that desperation of that magnitude sows seeds of its own—of tension, conflict.”
Hillary Clinton, United States Secretary of State 2009-2013

“No social system, ideology or principle of justice can tolerate a world in which the spiritual and physical potential of hundreds of millions is stunted from elemental hunger or inadequate nutrition.”

 

Henry Kissinger, United States Secretary of State 1973-1977, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 1973

A Global Crisis

In 2015, the world promised to end hunger by 2030. Today, with a rapidly ticking clock, we are dangerously far from reaching that goal.

Alice Kayibanda

Over two million children

will die from malnutrition a year, accounting for almost half of all under-five deaths

SOURCE

122 million more people are facing hunger worldwide than in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic and conflict in Ukraine

735 million people are currently facing hunger, compared to 613 million in 2019

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