Kabul: More than half of the country’s population Afghanistan A record 22.8 million people – will face acute food insecurity from November, the UN aid organization said on Monday.
This data about acute hunger was revealed in a new report released by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (Indian Penal Code) by the Food Security and Agriculture Group of Afghanistan, co-led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and united nations world food program (WFP).
A WFP release said the combined effects of drought, conflict, Covid-19 and the economic crisis have severely affected lives, livelihoods and people’s access to food.
The report’s findings come as Afghanistan’s harsh winter looms, threatening to cut off areas of the country where families depend on humanitarian aid to survive the colder months.
The IPC report found that during the weak season from November 2021 to March 2022, one in two Afghans will be facing an emergency level of crisis or acute food insecurity, which requires them to meet basic food needs, protect livelihoods and Preventing human catastrophe would require immediate human intervention.
The report also noted that this is the highest number of acute food insecure people ever recorded in Afghanistan in ten years that the United Nations conducted an IPC analysis. Globally, Afghanistan has one of the largest numbers of people with acute food insecurity, both in absolute and relative terms.
“It is imperative that we act efficiently and effectively to accelerate and increase our deliveries to Afghanistan before winter cuts across a large part of the country, which includes millions of people – farmers, women, young children and the elderly. We are starving. Cold winter. It’s a matter of life or death. We can’t wait and watch the humanitarian disaster unfold before us – it’s unacceptable!” said qi dongyu, Director General of the FAO.
“Afghanistan is now facing one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises – if not the worst – and food security has completely collapsed. This winter, millions of Afghans will be forced to choose between migration and starvation, when Unless we step up our life-saving aid, and until the economy can be revived. We are on a countdown to devastation and if we don’t act now, we will have total disaster on our hands.” said David BeasleyExecutive Director of WFP.
“Hunger is rising and children are dying. We cannot feed people on promises – funding commitments must be turned into hard cash, and the international community must come together to address this crisis, which is increasingly under control. Getting out of there,” Beasley warned.
The WFP said the IPC report shows a 37 percent increase in the number of Afghans facing acute hunger since the last assessment released in April 2021.
Among those at risk are 3.2 million children under the age of five who are likely to suffer acute malnutrition by the end of the year. In October, WFP and UNICEF warned that without immediate life-saving treatment, one million children were at risk of dying from severe acute malnutrition.
This data about acute hunger was revealed in a new report released by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (Indian Penal Code) by the Food Security and Agriculture Group of Afghanistan, co-led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and united nations world food program (WFP).
A WFP release said the combined effects of drought, conflict, Covid-19 and the economic crisis have severely affected lives, livelihoods and people’s access to food.
The report’s findings come as Afghanistan’s harsh winter looms, threatening to cut off areas of the country where families depend on humanitarian aid to survive the colder months.
The IPC report found that during the weak season from November 2021 to March 2022, one in two Afghans will be facing an emergency level of crisis or acute food insecurity, which requires them to meet basic food needs, protect livelihoods and Preventing human catastrophe would require immediate human intervention.
The report also noted that this is the highest number of acute food insecure people ever recorded in Afghanistan in ten years that the United Nations conducted an IPC analysis. Globally, Afghanistan has one of the largest numbers of people with acute food insecurity, both in absolute and relative terms.
“It is imperative that we act efficiently and effectively to accelerate and increase our deliveries to Afghanistan before winter cuts across a large part of the country, which includes millions of people – farmers, women, young children and the elderly. We are starving. Cold winter. It’s a matter of life or death. We can’t wait and watch the humanitarian disaster unfold before us – it’s unacceptable!” said qi dongyu, Director General of the FAO.
“Afghanistan is now facing one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises – if not the worst – and food security has completely collapsed. This winter, millions of Afghans will be forced to choose between migration and starvation, when Unless we step up our life-saving aid, and until the economy can be revived. We are on a countdown to devastation and if we don’t act now, we will have total disaster on our hands.” said David BeasleyExecutive Director of WFP.
“Hunger is rising and children are dying. We cannot feed people on promises – funding commitments must be turned into hard cash, and the international community must come together to address this crisis, which is increasingly under control. Getting out of there,” Beasley warned.
The WFP said the IPC report shows a 37 percent increase in the number of Afghans facing acute hunger since the last assessment released in April 2021.
Among those at risk are 3.2 million children under the age of five who are likely to suffer acute malnutrition by the end of the year. In October, WFP and UNICEF warned that without immediate life-saving treatment, one million children were at risk of dying from severe acute malnutrition.
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