Dhaka, Oct. 13 -- Bangladesh's Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has called for a fundamental overhaul of the global economic system to eliminate hunger and inequality, unveiling a six-point proposal to ensure global food security during his keynote address at the opening of the World Food Forum 2025 in Rome on Monday.

Speaking before world leaders, policymakers and youth delegates at the FAO plenary, Dr Yunus said hunger in today's world was not the result of scarcity, but of "a moral failure" in an economic framework that rewards profit over people.

"In 2024, 673 million people went hungry - yet we produced more than enough food," he said. "While we couldn't raise a few billion dollars to end hunger, the world spent 2.7 trillion ...