On World Hunger Day, Director of Policy and Campaigns, Simon Starling, reflects on the two main factors for the increase of global hunger and how we must collectively rise to achieve the ambitious goal to #EndHunger by 2030. The key, in most cases, is empowering people.

Our Bangladesh team have reported that tens of thousands of Rohingya families sheltering in the deforested hills of Cox’s Bazaar in Bangladesh are in imminent danger from the monsoon rains, which have just started. One assessment, carried out by the UNHCR and Dhaka University, suggests the risk of landslides and flooding could directly impact over 100,000 people.