The more people go hungry at home the more likely they are to migrate, according to a United Nations study released on Friday. The world is grappling with four potential famines simultaneously for the first time in recent history. The number of people fleeing a country increases by 1.9 per cent for each percentage increase of food insecurity, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said in the first report to comprehensively analyse the link between hunger and migration. The WFP study, which included interviews with migrants from 10 countries, also found that hunger fueled conflicts with reports of people joining armed groups to feed their families. Read: World facing greatest humanitarian crisis since 1945 - UNA record 65.3 million people were uprooted worldwide in 2015, according to U.N. data.

Source: The Star May 06, 2017 07:18 UTC