It's not scarcity, it's the system: Yunus blames economic framework for global hunger

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Monday placed six proposals for a complete transformation of the global food and economic systems to end hunger, saying hunger is caused by the failure of the existing economic framework. “Hunger is not caused by scarcity. It is caused by the failure of the economic framework that we have designed . . . we must change the system,” he said. The chief adviser presented a keynote speech at the grand opening of the World Food Forum (WFF) flagship event 2025 at Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) Headquarters in Rome, Italy, this afternoon (Rome Time). While proposing six points to reform the global food and economic system, Prof Yunus said firstly, stop the wars, start...