Giving Compass' Take:

• According to the United Nations, world hunger has increased in 2017 due to major issues like climate change and conflict, raising concern for achieving the SDG to end global hunger. Reuters reports on the urgency to act now.

• How can donors make an impact on the fight to end world hunger? It will take a large, collaborative effort and coordination across many sectors in the nonprofit world. The first step is to make sure that resources are abundant in this effort.

• Learn how food aid is helping feed the hungry.

World hunger rose in 2017 for a third consecutive year, fueled by conflict and climate change, the United Nations recently warned, jeopardizing a global goal to end the scourge by 2030.

Hunger appears to be increasing in almost all of Africa and in South America, with 821 million people - one in nine - going hungry in 2017, according to the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2018 report.

Meanwhile, 672 million adults - more than one in eight - are now obese, up from 600 million in 2014.

“Without increased efforts, there is a risk of falling far short of achieving the SDG target of hunger eradication by 2030,” the report said, referring to the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals, adopted by member nations in 2015.

It was the third year in a row that global hunger levels have increased, following a decade of declines.

Read the full article about the world hunger crisis by Thin Lei Win at Reuters.