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It was really like in the movies. Find out more at the end of this podcast.

Welcome to Hard Talk on the BBC World Service.

I'm Sarah Montague.

The world is experiencing the worst global food crisis in living memory.

Nearly 350 million people are classified as food insecure.

And of those nearly 50 million are estimated to be close to famine. What are the causes?

Conflict, climate change, COVID. And now the Ukraine war is disrupting global grain and

fertiliser supplies. My guest today is the outgoing chief executive of the world's largest

aid agency, the World Food Program. A former

Republican governor of South Carolina, David Beasley took over the World Food Program's top job

in 2017, since when he has more than double the agency's budget. In 2020, under his

leadership, the WFP was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Yet despite all of this, he says that global food insecurity is getting worse.

And rampant inflation means that the food and assistance that the WFP provides is also more expensive,

leading to some very hard decisions over budgets and rations.

So, with demand increasing and climate threats more urgent, can the world afford to feed its most vulnerable? David Beasley joins me now on the line from Rome.

Welcome to Hard Talk. Thank you, Sarah. Now, you have said that when you took on the job six years ago, you thought you could put the World Food Program out of business because you could solve world hunger. At that time, there were 80 million who you described as marching towards starvation. And yet the figure now, who you would classify in that way, is 350 million.

Was it ever solvable or is it just an impossible job?

Sarah, it was and it is.

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