Acute food insecurity soars to five-year high warns Global Report on Food Crises
WFP/Marco Frattini, Child eating PlumpySup to treat moderate acute malnutrition (MAM).
ROME - The number of people facing acute food insecurity and needing urgent life and livelihood-saving assistance has hit a five-year high in 2020 in countries beset by food crises, an annual report launched today by the Global Network Against Food Crises (GNAFC) - an international alliance of the UN, the EU, governmental and non-governmental agencies working to tackle food crises together - has found. Conflict, economic shocks - including due to COVID-19, extreme weather - pushed at least 155 million people into acute food insecurity in 2020.
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Conflict, economic shocks – including due to COVID-19, extreme weather – pushed at least 155 million people into acute food insecurity in 2020
Conflict, or economic shocks that are often related to COVID-19 along with extreme weather, are continuing to push millions of people into acute hunger.
Brussels/Rome (FAO) – The number of people facing acute food insecurity and needing urgent life and livelihood-saving assistance has hit a five-year high in 2020 in countries beset by food crises, an annual report launched today
[5 May 2021] by the Global Network Against Food Crises (GNAFC) – an international alliance of the UN, the EU, governmental and non-governmental agencies working to tackle food crises together – has found.
Burkina Faso: Participants in a WFP soil rehabilitation project in Sirighin in March 2.9 million people will face hunger during the upcoming lean season according to the latest Cadre Harmonisé figures. Photo: WFP/Evelyn Fey
At least 155 million people in 55 countries faced acute hunger in 2020 20 million more than 2019, according to figures from the 2021 Global Report on Food Crises, released today.
Published by the Global Network Against Food Crises an alliance of government agencies and NGOs, including the World Food Programme (WFP), the report highlights the lethal combined impact of conflict, extreme weather and economic shocks, exacerbated, last year, by the COVID-19 pandemic.