![]() Photo: WFP/Sayed Asif Mahmud Climate actionĬlimate shocks such as droughts and floods can wipe out crops, disrupt markets and destroy roads and bridges. (*See also ‘Current emergencies' section below)Ī woman fetches water after severe flooding in Kurigram District, Bangladesh. Each day WFP has up to 5,600 trucks, 30 ships and 100 planes on the move, delivering food and other assistance.WFP is the frontline agency responding to emergencies caused by conflict, climate shocks, pandemics and other disasters. We also coordinate responses to large-scale emergencies on behalf of the wider humanitarian community, as lead agency of the Logistics Cluster and the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster. Our focus is also on emergency preparedness, working with partners to provide early warning and helping communities lessen the impact of looming disasters. See also: Fighting famine Main areas of work Emergency response* and preparedness In northern Ethiopia, the Famine Review Committee (July 2021) identified humanitarian assistance as essential to mitigating the risk of famine. WFP has scaled up direct food and nutrition assistance to prevent famine. The price of doing nothing in the face of growing hunger will inevitably be measured in terms of lost lives. In Somalia, humanitarian action will be key to preventing famine in coming months. WFP urgently needs funding to avert famine, chiefly through life-saving food and nutrition assistance. ![]() Humanitarian action will be critical to preventing further starvation and death. The latest Hunger Hotspots report notes that 970,000 people in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen are already facing or expected to face catastrophic food insecurity – ten times more than five years ago. There are 43.3 million people in 51 countries at the "emergency" phase of food insecurity in 2022, just one step away from a declaration of famine. WFP's interactive HungerMap LIVE provides up-to-the-minute metrics on hunger hotspots. This is more than double the rate in all regions, according to the latest edition of the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World. While Asia is home to the greatest number of undernourished people at 418 million, Africa is the region with the highest prevalence of undernourishment in percentage terms, at 21 percent. Since the outbreak of conflict in Ukraine, WFP has been forced to pay US$73.6 million more a month for operations than in 2019 – a staggering 44 percent rise. At the start of 2022, the price WFP was paying for food was up by 30 percent compared to 2019, and the cost of delivering it had risen by an additional US$42 million a month. These rising costs are also affecting WFP’s work. At the same time, high fertilizer prices are causing a falling production of maize, rice, soybean and wheat. The economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, and then the war in Ukraine, has pushed prices up and put food out of reach for millions of people across the world. Acute food insecurity has reached unprecedented highs, affecting a record 349 million people – up from 135 million in 2019. More than 30 million children in 15 worst-affected countries suffer from acute malnutrition.Ī deadly combination of conflict, economic shocks, climate extremes and soaring fertilizer prices is at the root of soaring numbers. Up to 828 million people more one in ten of the world's population – still go to bed hungry each night.
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