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The United Nations World Food Programme is the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. We are the world\u2019s largest humanitarian organization, saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The United Nations World Food Programme is the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. We are the world\u2019s largest humanitarian organization, saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Please find images of the situation in southern Madagascar here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n # # #<\/p>\n\n\n\n The United Nations World Food Programme is the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. We are the world\u2019s largest humanitarian organization, saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow us on Twitter @wfp_media<\/p>\n","post_title":"Southern Madagascar on brink of famine, warns WFP","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"southern-madagascar-on-brink-of-famine-warns-wfp","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5434","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Semi-arid conditions in southern Madagascar, combined with high levels of soil erosion, deforestation and unprecedented drastic sandstorms, have covered croplands and pasture with sand and transformed arable land into wasteland across the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please find images of the situation in southern Madagascar here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n # # #<\/p>\n\n\n\n The United Nations World Food Programme is the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. We are the world\u2019s largest humanitarian organization, saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow us on Twitter @wfp_media<\/p>\n","post_title":"Southern Madagascar on brink of famine, warns WFP","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"southern-madagascar-on-brink-of-famine-warns-wfp","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5434","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
The 2021 harvest prospects are poor, with the failure of the rains during the last planting season indicating another failed harvest and as a result a longer tougher lean season (from October 2021 to March 2022). Food production in 2021 is expected to be less than 40 percent of the last five-year average, making it harder for communities on the brink of survival to feed themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Semi-arid conditions in southern Madagascar, combined with high levels of soil erosion, deforestation and unprecedented drastic sandstorms, have covered croplands and pasture with sand and transformed arable land into wasteland across the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please find images of the situation in southern Madagascar here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n # # #<\/p>\n\n\n\n The United Nations World Food Programme is the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. We are the world\u2019s largest humanitarian organization, saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow us on Twitter @wfp_media<\/p>\n","post_title":"Southern Madagascar on brink of famine, warns WFP","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"southern-madagascar-on-brink-of-famine-warns-wfp","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5434","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Consecutive years of drought in the South have left at least 1.35 million people in need of emergency food and nutrition assistance. The situation has been critical since September 2020, the start of the lean season when families had already depleted their food supplies and eaten their vital seed stocks, leaving nothing for the November\/December 2020 planting season. Currently, up to 80% of the population in certain areas in the south is resorting to desperate survival measures such as eating locusts, raw red cactus fruits or wild leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 2021 harvest prospects are poor, with the failure of the rains during the last planting season indicating another failed harvest and as a result a longer tougher lean season (from October 2021 to March 2022). Food production in 2021 is expected to be less than 40 percent of the last five-year average, making it harder for communities on the brink of survival to feed themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Semi-arid conditions in southern Madagascar, combined with high levels of soil erosion, deforestation and unprecedented drastic sandstorms, have covered croplands and pasture with sand and transformed arable land into wasteland across the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please find images of the situation in southern Madagascar here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n # # #<\/p>\n\n\n\n The United Nations World Food Programme is the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. We are the world\u2019s largest humanitarian organization, saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow us on Twitter @wfp_media<\/p>\n","post_title":"Southern Madagascar on brink of famine, warns WFP","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"southern-madagascar-on-brink-of-famine-warns-wfp","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5434","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
WFP needs US$74 million for the next six months to save the lives in southern Madagascar and prevent a catastrophe. Following alarm calls received from Amboasary district on the severity of the food crisis, WFP has been progressively assisting up to 750,000 people through food and cash distributions each month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Consecutive years of drought in the South have left at least 1.35 million people in need of emergency food and nutrition assistance. The situation has been critical since September 2020, the start of the lean season when families had already depleted their food supplies and eaten their vital seed stocks, leaving nothing for the November\/December 2020 planting season. Currently, up to 80% of the population in certain areas in the south is resorting to desperate survival measures such as eating locusts, raw red cactus fruits or wild leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 2021 harvest prospects are poor, with the failure of the rains during the last planting season indicating another failed harvest and as a result a longer tougher lean season (from October 2021 to March 2022). Food production in 2021 is expected to be less than 40 percent of the last five-year average, making it harder for communities on the brink of survival to feed themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Semi-arid conditions in southern Madagascar, combined with high levels of soil erosion, deforestation and unprecedented drastic sandstorms, have covered croplands and pasture with sand and transformed arable land into wasteland across the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please find images of the situation in southern Madagascar here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n # # #<\/p>\n\n\n\n The United Nations World Food Programme is the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. We are the world\u2019s largest humanitarian organization, saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow us on Twitter @wfp_media<\/p>\n","post_title":"Southern Madagascar on brink of famine, warns WFP","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"southern-madagascar-on-brink-of-famine-warns-wfp","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5434","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\u201cWe have witnessed heart-breaking scenes of severely malnourished children and starving families. We need the money and resources now to help the people of Madagascar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WFP needs US$74 million for the next six months to save the lives in southern Madagascar and prevent a catastrophe. Following alarm calls received from Amboasary district on the severity of the food crisis, WFP has been progressively assisting up to 750,000 people through food and cash distributions each month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Consecutive years of drought in the South have left at least 1.35 million people in need of emergency food and nutrition assistance. The situation has been critical since September 2020, the start of the lean season when families had already depleted their food supplies and eaten their vital seed stocks, leaving nothing for the November\/December 2020 planting season. Currently, up to 80% of the population in certain areas in the south is resorting to desperate survival measures such as eating locusts, raw red cactus fruits or wild leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 2021 harvest prospects are poor, with the failure of the rains during the last planting season indicating another failed harvest and as a result a longer tougher lean season (from October 2021 to March 2022). Food production in 2021 is expected to be less than 40 percent of the last five-year average, making it harder for communities on the brink of survival to feed themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Semi-arid conditions in southern Madagascar, combined with high levels of soil erosion, deforestation and unprecedented drastic sandstorms, have covered croplands and pasture with sand and transformed arable land into wasteland across the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please find images of the situation in southern Madagascar here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n # # #<\/p>\n\n\n\n The United Nations World Food Programme is the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. We are the world\u2019s largest humanitarian organization, saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow us on Twitter @wfp_media<\/p>\n","post_title":"Southern Madagascar on brink of famine, warns WFP","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"southern-madagascar-on-brink-of-famine-warns-wfp","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5434","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\u201cThe scale of the catastrophe is beyond belief. If we don\u2019t reverse this crisis, if we don\u2019t get food to the people in the south of Madagascar, families will starve and lives will be lost,\u201d said WFP\u2019s Senior Director of Operations, Amer Daoudi who today visited one of the worst affected areas, Sihanamaro, accompanied by a high-level delegation of ambassadors and senior government officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe have witnessed heart-breaking scenes of severely malnourished children and starving families. We need the money and resources now to help the people of Madagascar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WFP needs US$74 million for the next six months to save the lives in southern Madagascar and prevent a catastrophe. Following alarm calls received from Amboasary district on the severity of the food crisis, WFP has been progressively assisting up to 750,000 people through food and cash distributions each month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Consecutive years of drought in the South have left at least 1.35 million people in need of emergency food and nutrition assistance. The situation has been critical since September 2020, the start of the lean season when families had already depleted their food supplies and eaten their vital seed stocks, leaving nothing for the November\/December 2020 planting season. Currently, up to 80% of the population in certain areas in the south is resorting to desperate survival measures such as eating locusts, raw red cactus fruits or wild leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 2021 harvest prospects are poor, with the failure of the rains during the last planting season indicating another failed harvest and as a result a longer tougher lean season (from October 2021 to March 2022). Food production in 2021 is expected to be less than 40 percent of the last five-year average, making it harder for communities on the brink of survival to feed themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Semi-arid conditions in southern Madagascar, combined with high levels of soil erosion, deforestation and unprecedented drastic sandstorms, have covered croplands and pasture with sand and transformed arable land into wasteland across the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please find images of the situation in southern Madagascar here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n # # #<\/p>\n\n\n\n The United Nations World Food Programme is the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. We are the world\u2019s largest humanitarian organization, saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow us on Twitter @wfp_media<\/p>\n","post_title":"Southern Madagascar on brink of famine, warns WFP","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"southern-madagascar-on-brink-of-famine-warns-wfp","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5434","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Most districts in the South are in the grip of a nutrition emergency with Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) in children under five almost doubling over the last four months, touching an alarming 16.5 percent, as per a recent assessment conducted by the Ministry of Health. Worst affected is the district of Ambovombe where GAM has crossed 27 percent, putting the lives of many children at risk. Children with acute malnutrition are four times more likely to die than healthy children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe scale of the catastrophe is beyond belief. If we don\u2019t reverse this crisis, if we don\u2019t get food to the people in the south of Madagascar, families will starve and lives will be lost,\u201d said WFP\u2019s Senior Director of Operations, Amer Daoudi who today visited one of the worst affected areas, Sihanamaro, accompanied by a high-level delegation of ambassadors and senior government officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe have witnessed heart-breaking scenes of severely malnourished children and starving families. We need the money and resources now to help the people of Madagascar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WFP needs US$74 million for the next six months to save the lives in southern Madagascar and prevent a catastrophe. Following alarm calls received from Amboasary district on the severity of the food crisis, WFP has been progressively assisting up to 750,000 people through food and cash distributions each month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Consecutive years of drought in the South have left at least 1.35 million people in need of emergency food and nutrition assistance. The situation has been critical since September 2020, the start of the lean season when families had already depleted their food supplies and eaten their vital seed stocks, leaving nothing for the November\/December 2020 planting season. Currently, up to 80% of the population in certain areas in the south is resorting to desperate survival measures such as eating locusts, raw red cactus fruits or wild leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 2021 harvest prospects are poor, with the failure of the rains during the last planting season indicating another failed harvest and as a result a longer tougher lean season (from October 2021 to March 2022). Food production in 2021 is expected to be less than 40 percent of the last five-year average, making it harder for communities on the brink of survival to feed themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Semi-arid conditions in southern Madagascar, combined with high levels of soil erosion, deforestation and unprecedented drastic sandstorms, have covered croplands and pasture with sand and transformed arable land into wasteland across the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please find images of the situation in southern Madagascar here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n # # #<\/p>\n\n\n\n The United Nations World Food Programme is the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. We are the world\u2019s largest humanitarian organization, saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow us on Twitter @wfp_media<\/p>\n","post_title":"Southern Madagascar on brink of famine, warns WFP","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"southern-madagascar-on-brink-of-famine-warns-wfp","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5434","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR \u2013 The unrelenting drought in southern Madagascar is forcing hundreds of thousands of people to the brink of famine, warns the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). With acute malnutrition rates continuing to rise, urgent action is required to address this unfolding humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most districts in the South are in the grip of a nutrition emergency with Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) in children under five almost doubling over the last four months, touching an alarming 16.5 percent, as per a recent assessment conducted by the Ministry of Health. Worst affected is the district of Ambovombe where GAM has crossed 27 percent, putting the lives of many children at risk. Children with acute malnutrition are four times more likely to die than healthy children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe scale of the catastrophe is beyond belief. If we don\u2019t reverse this crisis, if we don\u2019t get food to the people in the south of Madagascar, families will starve and lives will be lost,\u201d said WFP\u2019s Senior Director of Operations, Amer Daoudi who today visited one of the worst affected areas, Sihanamaro, accompanied by a high-level delegation of ambassadors and senior government officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe have witnessed heart-breaking scenes of severely malnourished children and starving families. We need the money and resources now to help the people of Madagascar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WFP needs US$74 million for the next six months to save the lives in southern Madagascar and prevent a catastrophe. Following alarm calls received from Amboasary district on the severity of the food crisis, WFP has been progressively assisting up to 750,000 people through food and cash distributions each month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Consecutive years of drought in the South have left at least 1.35 million people in need of emergency food and nutrition assistance. The situation has been critical since September 2020, the start of the lean season when families had already depleted their food supplies and eaten their vital seed stocks, leaving nothing for the November\/December 2020 planting season. Currently, up to 80% of the population in certain areas in the south is resorting to desperate survival measures such as eating locusts, raw red cactus fruits or wild leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 2021 harvest prospects are poor, with the failure of the rains during the last planting season indicating another failed harvest and as a result a longer tougher lean season (from October 2021 to March 2022). Food production in 2021 is expected to be less than 40 percent of the last five-year average, making it harder for communities on the brink of survival to feed themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Semi-arid conditions in southern Madagascar, combined with high levels of soil erosion, deforestation and unprecedented drastic sandstorms, have covered croplands and pasture with sand and transformed arable land into wasteland across the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please find images of the situation in southern Madagascar here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n # # #<\/p>\n\n\n\n The United Nations World Food Programme is the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. We are the world\u2019s largest humanitarian organization, saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow us on Twitter @wfp_media<\/p>\n","post_title":"Southern Madagascar on brink of famine, warns WFP","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"southern-madagascar-on-brink-of-famine-warns-wfp","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5434","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":false,"total_page":1},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR \u2013 The unrelenting drought in southern Madagascar is forcing hundreds of thousands of people to the brink of famine, warns the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). With acute malnutrition rates continuing to rise, urgent action is required to address this unfolding humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most districts in the South are in the grip of a nutrition emergency with Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) in children under five almost doubling over the last four months, touching an alarming 16.5 percent, as per a recent assessment conducted by the Ministry of Health. Worst affected is the district of Ambovombe where GAM has crossed 27 percent, putting the lives of many children at risk. Children with acute malnutrition are four times more likely to die than healthy children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe scale of the catastrophe is beyond belief. If we don\u2019t reverse this crisis, if we don\u2019t get food to the people in the south of Madagascar, families will starve and lives will be lost,\u201d said WFP\u2019s Senior Director of Operations, Amer Daoudi who today visited one of the worst affected areas, Sihanamaro, accompanied by a high-level delegation of ambassadors and senior government officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe have witnessed heart-breaking scenes of severely malnourished children and starving families. We need the money and resources now to help the people of Madagascar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WFP needs US$74 million for the next six months to save the lives in southern Madagascar and prevent a catastrophe. Following alarm calls received from Amboasary district on the severity of the food crisis, WFP has been progressively assisting up to 750,000 people through food and cash distributions each month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Consecutive years of drought in the South have left at least 1.35 million people in need of emergency food and nutrition assistance. The situation has been critical since September 2020, the start of the lean season when families had already depleted their food supplies and eaten their vital seed stocks, leaving nothing for the November\/December 2020 planting season. Currently, up to 80% of the population in certain areas in the south is resorting to desperate survival measures such as eating locusts, raw red cactus fruits or wild leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 2021 harvest prospects are poor, with the failure of the rains during the last planting season indicating another failed harvest and as a result a longer tougher lean season (from October 2021 to March 2022). Food production in 2021 is expected to be less than 40 percent of the last five-year average, making it harder for communities on the brink of survival to feed themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Semi-arid conditions in southern Madagascar, combined with high levels of soil erosion, deforestation and unprecedented drastic sandstorms, have covered croplands and pasture with sand and transformed arable land into wasteland across the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n originally published:<\/em> 29 April 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.wfp.org\/news\/southern-madagascar-brink-famine-warns-wfp<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR \u2013 The unrelenting drought in southern Madagascar is forcing hundreds of thousands of people to the brink of famine, warns the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). With acute malnutrition rates continuing to rise, urgent action is required to address this unfolding humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most districts in the South are in the grip of a nutrition emergency with Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) in children under five almost doubling over the last four months, touching an alarming 16.5 percent, as per a recent assessment conducted by the Ministry of Health. Worst affected is the district of Ambovombe where GAM has crossed 27 percent, putting the lives of many children at risk. Children with acute malnutrition are four times more likely to die than healthy children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe scale of the catastrophe is beyond belief. If we don\u2019t reverse this crisis, if we don\u2019t get food to the people in the south of Madagascar, families will starve and lives will be lost,\u201d said WFP\u2019s Senior Director of Operations, Amer Daoudi who today visited one of the worst affected areas, Sihanamaro, accompanied by a high-level delegation of ambassadors and senior government officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe have witnessed heart-breaking scenes of severely malnourished children and starving families. We need the money and resources now to help the people of Madagascar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WFP needs US$74 million for the next six months to save the lives in southern Madagascar and prevent a catastrophe. Following alarm calls received from Amboasary district on the severity of the food crisis, WFP has been progressively assisting up to 750,000 people through food and cash distributions each month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Consecutive years of drought in the South have left at least 1.35 million people in need of emergency food and nutrition assistance. The situation has been critical since September 2020, the start of the lean season when families had already depleted their food supplies and eaten their vital seed stocks, leaving nothing for the November\/December 2020 planting season. Currently, up to 80% of the population in certain areas in the south is resorting to desperate survival measures such as eating locusts, raw red cactus fruits or wild leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 2021 harvest prospects are poor, with the failure of the rains during the last planting season indicating another failed harvest and as a result a longer tougher lean season (from October 2021 to March 2022). Food production in 2021 is expected to be less than 40 percent of the last five-year average, making it harder for communities on the brink of survival to feed themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Semi-arid conditions in southern Madagascar, combined with high levels of soil erosion, deforestation and unprecedented drastic sandstorms, have covered croplands and pasture with sand and transformed arable land into wasteland across the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow us on Twitter @wfp_media<\/p>\n","post_title":"Yemen is heading toward the biggest famine in modern history, WFP Chief warns UN Security Council","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"yemen-is-heading-toward-the-biggest-famine-in-modern-history-wfp-chief-warns-un-security-council","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5444","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5434,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-06-13 21:12:17","post_date_gmt":"2021-06-13 21:12:17","post_content":"\n originally published:<\/em> 29 April 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.wfp.org\/news\/southern-madagascar-brink-famine-warns-wfp<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR \u2013 The unrelenting drought in southern Madagascar is forcing hundreds of thousands of people to the brink of famine, warns the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). With acute malnutrition rates continuing to rise, urgent action is required to address this unfolding humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most districts in the South are in the grip of a nutrition emergency with Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) in children under five almost doubling over the last four months, touching an alarming 16.5 percent, as per a recent assessment conducted by the Ministry of Health. Worst affected is the district of Ambovombe where GAM has crossed 27 percent, putting the lives of many children at risk. Children with acute malnutrition are four times more likely to die than healthy children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe scale of the catastrophe is beyond belief. If we don\u2019t reverse this crisis, if we don\u2019t get food to the people in the south of Madagascar, families will starve and lives will be lost,\u201d said WFP\u2019s Senior Director of Operations, Amer Daoudi who today visited one of the worst affected areas, Sihanamaro, accompanied by a high-level delegation of ambassadors and senior government officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe have witnessed heart-breaking scenes of severely malnourished children and starving families. We need the money and resources now to help the people of Madagascar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WFP needs US$74 million for the next six months to save the lives in southern Madagascar and prevent a catastrophe. Following alarm calls received from Amboasary district on the severity of the food crisis, WFP has been progressively assisting up to 750,000 people through food and cash distributions each month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Consecutive years of drought in the South have left at least 1.35 million people in need of emergency food and nutrition assistance. The situation has been critical since September 2020, the start of the lean season when families had already depleted their food supplies and eaten their vital seed stocks, leaving nothing for the November\/December 2020 planting season. Currently, up to 80% of the population in certain areas in the south is resorting to desperate survival measures such as eating locusts, raw red cactus fruits or wild leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 2021 harvest prospects are poor, with the failure of the rains during the last planting season indicating another failed harvest and as a result a longer tougher lean season (from October 2021 to March 2022). Food production in 2021 is expected to be less than 40 percent of the last five-year average, making it harder for communities on the brink of survival to feed themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Semi-arid conditions in southern Madagascar, combined with high levels of soil erosion, deforestation and unprecedented drastic sandstorms, have covered croplands and pasture with sand and transformed arable land into wasteland across the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The United Nations World Food Programme is the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. We are the world\u2019s largest humanitarian organization, saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow us on Twitter @wfp_media<\/p>\n","post_title":"Yemen is heading toward the biggest famine in modern history, WFP Chief warns UN Security Council","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"yemen-is-heading-toward-the-biggest-famine-in-modern-history-wfp-chief-warns-un-security-council","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5444","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5434,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-06-13 21:12:17","post_date_gmt":"2021-06-13 21:12:17","post_content":"\n originally published:<\/em> 29 April 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.wfp.org\/news\/southern-madagascar-brink-famine-warns-wfp<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR \u2013 The unrelenting drought in southern Madagascar is forcing hundreds of thousands of people to the brink of famine, warns the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). With acute malnutrition rates continuing to rise, urgent action is required to address this unfolding humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most districts in the South are in the grip of a nutrition emergency with Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) in children under five almost doubling over the last four months, touching an alarming 16.5 percent, as per a recent assessment conducted by the Ministry of Health. Worst affected is the district of Ambovombe where GAM has crossed 27 percent, putting the lives of many children at risk. Children with acute malnutrition are four times more likely to die than healthy children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe scale of the catastrophe is beyond belief. If we don\u2019t reverse this crisis, if we don\u2019t get food to the people in the south of Madagascar, families will starve and lives will be lost,\u201d said WFP\u2019s Senior Director of Operations, Amer Daoudi who today visited one of the worst affected areas, Sihanamaro, accompanied by a high-level delegation of ambassadors and senior government officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe have witnessed heart-breaking scenes of severely malnourished children and starving families. We need the money and resources now to help the people of Madagascar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WFP needs US$74 million for the next six months to save the lives in southern Madagascar and prevent a catastrophe. Following alarm calls received from Amboasary district on the severity of the food crisis, WFP has been progressively assisting up to 750,000 people through food and cash distributions each month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Consecutive years of drought in the South have left at least 1.35 million people in need of emergency food and nutrition assistance. The situation has been critical since September 2020, the start of the lean season when families had already depleted their food supplies and eaten their vital seed stocks, leaving nothing for the November\/December 2020 planting season. Currently, up to 80% of the population in certain areas in the south is resorting to desperate survival measures such as eating locusts, raw red cactus fruits or wild leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 2021 harvest prospects are poor, with the failure of the rains during the last planting season indicating another failed harvest and as a result a longer tougher lean season (from October 2021 to March 2022). Food production in 2021 is expected to be less than 40 percent of the last five-year average, making it harder for communities on the brink of survival to feed themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Semi-arid conditions in southern Madagascar, combined with high levels of soil erosion, deforestation and unprecedented drastic sandstorms, have covered croplands and pasture with sand and transformed arable land into wasteland across the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n # # #<\/p>\n\n\n\n The United Nations World Food Programme is the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. We are the world\u2019s largest humanitarian organization, saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow us on Twitter @wfp_media<\/p>\n","post_title":"Yemen is heading toward the biggest famine in modern history, WFP Chief warns UN Security Council","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"yemen-is-heading-toward-the-biggest-famine-in-modern-history-wfp-chief-warns-un-security-council","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5444","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5434,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-06-13 21:12:17","post_date_gmt":"2021-06-13 21:12:17","post_content":"\n originally published:<\/em> 29 April 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.wfp.org\/news\/southern-madagascar-brink-famine-warns-wfp<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR \u2013 The unrelenting drought in southern Madagascar is forcing hundreds of thousands of people to the brink of famine, warns the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). With acute malnutrition rates continuing to rise, urgent action is required to address this unfolding humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most districts in the South are in the grip of a nutrition emergency with Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) in children under five almost doubling over the last four months, touching an alarming 16.5 percent, as per a recent assessment conducted by the Ministry of Health. Worst affected is the district of Ambovombe where GAM has crossed 27 percent, putting the lives of many children at risk. Children with acute malnutrition are four times more likely to die than healthy children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe scale of the catastrophe is beyond belief. If we don\u2019t reverse this crisis, if we don\u2019t get food to the people in the south of Madagascar, families will starve and lives will be lost,\u201d said WFP\u2019s Senior Director of Operations, Amer Daoudi who today visited one of the worst affected areas, Sihanamaro, accompanied by a high-level delegation of ambassadors and senior government officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe have witnessed heart-breaking scenes of severely malnourished children and starving families. We need the money and resources now to help the people of Madagascar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WFP needs US$74 million for the next six months to save the lives in southern Madagascar and prevent a catastrophe. Following alarm calls received from Amboasary district on the severity of the food crisis, WFP has been progressively assisting up to 750,000 people through food and cash distributions each month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Consecutive years of drought in the South have left at least 1.35 million people in need of emergency food and nutrition assistance. The situation has been critical since September 2020, the start of the lean season when families had already depleted their food supplies and eaten their vital seed stocks, leaving nothing for the November\/December 2020 planting season. Currently, up to 80% of the population in certain areas in the south is resorting to desperate survival measures such as eating locusts, raw red cactus fruits or wild leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 2021 harvest prospects are poor, with the failure of the rains during the last planting season indicating another failed harvest and as a result a longer tougher lean season (from October 2021 to March 2022). Food production in 2021 is expected to be less than 40 percent of the last five-year average, making it harder for communities on the brink of survival to feed themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Semi-arid conditions in southern Madagascar, combined with high levels of soil erosion, deforestation and unprecedented drastic sandstorms, have covered croplands and pasture with sand and transformed arable land into wasteland across the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Video footage<\/a><\/strong> from Yemen<\/p>\n\n\n\n # # #<\/p>\n\n\n\n The United Nations World Food Programme is the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. We are the world\u2019s largest humanitarian organization, saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow us on Twitter @wfp_media<\/p>\n","post_title":"Yemen is heading toward the biggest famine in modern history, WFP Chief warns UN Security Council","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"yemen-is-heading-toward-the-biggest-famine-in-modern-history-wfp-chief-warns-un-security-council","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5444","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5434,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-06-13 21:12:17","post_date_gmt":"2021-06-13 21:12:17","post_content":"\n originally published:<\/em> 29 April 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.wfp.org\/news\/southern-madagascar-brink-famine-warns-wfp<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR \u2013 The unrelenting drought in southern Madagascar is forcing hundreds of thousands of people to the brink of famine, warns the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). With acute malnutrition rates continuing to rise, urgent action is required to address this unfolding humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most districts in the South are in the grip of a nutrition emergency with Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) in children under five almost doubling over the last four months, touching an alarming 16.5 percent, as per a recent assessment conducted by the Ministry of Health. Worst affected is the district of Ambovombe where GAM has crossed 27 percent, putting the lives of many children at risk. Children with acute malnutrition are four times more likely to die than healthy children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe scale of the catastrophe is beyond belief. If we don\u2019t reverse this crisis, if we don\u2019t get food to the people in the south of Madagascar, families will starve and lives will be lost,\u201d said WFP\u2019s Senior Director of Operations, Amer Daoudi who today visited one of the worst affected areas, Sihanamaro, accompanied by a high-level delegation of ambassadors and senior government officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe have witnessed heart-breaking scenes of severely malnourished children and starving families. We need the money and resources now to help the people of Madagascar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WFP needs US$74 million for the next six months to save the lives in southern Madagascar and prevent a catastrophe. Following alarm calls received from Amboasary district on the severity of the food crisis, WFP has been progressively assisting up to 750,000 people through food and cash distributions each month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Consecutive years of drought in the South have left at least 1.35 million people in need of emergency food and nutrition assistance. The situation has been critical since September 2020, the start of the lean season when families had already depleted their food supplies and eaten their vital seed stocks, leaving nothing for the November\/December 2020 planting season. Currently, up to 80% of the population in certain areas in the south is resorting to desperate survival measures such as eating locusts, raw red cactus fruits or wild leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 2021 harvest prospects are poor, with the failure of the rains during the last planting season indicating another failed harvest and as a result a longer tougher lean season (from October 2021 to March 2022). Food production in 2021 is expected to be less than 40 percent of the last five-year average, making it harder for communities on the brink of survival to feed themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Semi-arid conditions in southern Madagascar, combined with high levels of soil erosion, deforestation and unprecedented drastic sandstorms, have covered croplands and pasture with sand and transformed arable land into wasteland across the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Photos<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Video footage<\/a><\/strong> from Yemen<\/p>\n\n\n\n # # #<\/p>\n\n\n\n The United Nations World Food Programme is the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. We are the world\u2019s largest humanitarian organization, saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow us on Twitter @wfp_media<\/p>\n","post_title":"Yemen is heading toward the biggest famine in modern history, WFP Chief warns UN Security Council","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"yemen-is-heading-toward-the-biggest-famine-in-modern-history-wfp-chief-warns-un-security-council","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5444","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5434,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-06-13 21:12:17","post_date_gmt":"2021-06-13 21:12:17","post_content":"\n originally published:<\/em> 29 April 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.wfp.org\/news\/southern-madagascar-brink-famine-warns-wfp<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR \u2013 The unrelenting drought in southern Madagascar is forcing hundreds of thousands of people to the brink of famine, warns the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). With acute malnutrition rates continuing to rise, urgent action is required to address this unfolding humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most districts in the South are in the grip of a nutrition emergency with Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) in children under five almost doubling over the last four months, touching an alarming 16.5 percent, as per a recent assessment conducted by the Ministry of Health. Worst affected is the district of Ambovombe where GAM has crossed 27 percent, putting the lives of many children at risk. Children with acute malnutrition are four times more likely to die than healthy children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe scale of the catastrophe is beyond belief. If we don\u2019t reverse this crisis, if we don\u2019t get food to the people in the south of Madagascar, families will starve and lives will be lost,\u201d said WFP\u2019s Senior Director of Operations, Amer Daoudi who today visited one of the worst affected areas, Sihanamaro, accompanied by a high-level delegation of ambassadors and senior government officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe have witnessed heart-breaking scenes of severely malnourished children and starving families. We need the money and resources now to help the people of Madagascar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WFP needs US$74 million for the next six months to save the lives in southern Madagascar and prevent a catastrophe. Following alarm calls received from Amboasary district on the severity of the food crisis, WFP has been progressively assisting up to 750,000 people through food and cash distributions each month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Consecutive years of drought in the South have left at least 1.35 million people in need of emergency food and nutrition assistance. The situation has been critical since September 2020, the start of the lean season when families had already depleted their food supplies and eaten their vital seed stocks, leaving nothing for the November\/December 2020 planting season. Currently, up to 80% of the population in certain areas in the south is resorting to desperate survival measures such as eating locusts, raw red cactus fruits or wild leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 2021 harvest prospects are poor, with the failure of the rains during the last planting season indicating another failed harvest and as a result a longer tougher lean season (from October 2021 to March 2022). Food production in 2021 is expected to be less than 40 percent of the last five-year average, making it harder for communities on the brink of survival to feed themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Semi-arid conditions in southern Madagascar, combined with high levels of soil erosion, deforestation and unprecedented drastic sandstorms, have covered croplands and pasture with sand and transformed arable land into wasteland across the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Full transcript<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Photos<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Video footage<\/a><\/strong> from Yemen<\/p>\n\n\n\n # # #<\/p>\n\n\n\n The United Nations World Food Programme is the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. We are the world\u2019s largest humanitarian organization, saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow us on Twitter @wfp_media<\/p>\n","post_title":"Yemen is heading toward the biggest famine in modern history, WFP Chief warns UN Security Council","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"yemen-is-heading-toward-the-biggest-famine-in-modern-history-wfp-chief-warns-un-security-council","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5444","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5434,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-06-13 21:12:17","post_date_gmt":"2021-06-13 21:12:17","post_content":"\n originally published:<\/em> 29 April 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.wfp.org\/news\/southern-madagascar-brink-famine-warns-wfp<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR \u2013 The unrelenting drought in southern Madagascar is forcing hundreds of thousands of people to the brink of famine, warns the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). With acute malnutrition rates continuing to rise, urgent action is required to address this unfolding humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most districts in the South are in the grip of a nutrition emergency with Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) in children under five almost doubling over the last four months, touching an alarming 16.5 percent, as per a recent assessment conducted by the Ministry of Health. Worst affected is the district of Ambovombe where GAM has crossed 27 percent, putting the lives of many children at risk. Children with acute malnutrition are four times more likely to die than healthy children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe scale of the catastrophe is beyond belief. If we don\u2019t reverse this crisis, if we don\u2019t get food to the people in the south of Madagascar, families will starve and lives will be lost,\u201d said WFP\u2019s Senior Director of Operations, Amer Daoudi who today visited one of the worst affected areas, Sihanamaro, accompanied by a high-level delegation of ambassadors and senior government officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe have witnessed heart-breaking scenes of severely malnourished children and starving families. We need the money and resources now to help the people of Madagascar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WFP needs US$74 million for the next six months to save the lives in southern Madagascar and prevent a catastrophe. Following alarm calls received from Amboasary district on the severity of the food crisis, WFP has been progressively assisting up to 750,000 people through food and cash distributions each month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Consecutive years of drought in the South have left at least 1.35 million people in need of emergency food and nutrition assistance. The situation has been critical since September 2020, the start of the lean season when families had already depleted their food supplies and eaten their vital seed stocks, leaving nothing for the November\/December 2020 planting season. Currently, up to 80% of the population in certain areas in the south is resorting to desperate survival measures such as eating locusts, raw red cactus fruits or wild leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 2021 harvest prospects are poor, with the failure of the rains during the last planting season indicating another failed harvest and as a result a longer tougher lean season (from October 2021 to March 2022). Food production in 2021 is expected to be less than 40 percent of the last five-year average, making it harder for communities on the brink of survival to feed themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Semi-arid conditions in southern Madagascar, combined with high levels of soil erosion, deforestation and unprecedented drastic sandstorms, have covered croplands and pasture with sand and transformed arable land into wasteland across the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Full transcript<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Photos<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Video footage<\/a><\/strong> from Yemen<\/p>\n\n\n\n # # #<\/p>\n\n\n\n The United Nations World Food Programme is the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. We are the world\u2019s largest humanitarian organization, saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow us on Twitter @wfp_media<\/p>\n","post_title":"Yemen is heading toward the biggest famine in modern history, WFP Chief warns UN Security Council","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"yemen-is-heading-toward-the-biggest-famine-in-modern-history-wfp-chief-warns-un-security-council","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5444","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5434,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-06-13 21:12:17","post_date_gmt":"2021-06-13 21:12:17","post_content":"\n originally published:<\/em> 29 April 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.wfp.org\/news\/southern-madagascar-brink-famine-warns-wfp<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR \u2013 The unrelenting drought in southern Madagascar is forcing hundreds of thousands of people to the brink of famine, warns the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). With acute malnutrition rates continuing to rise, urgent action is required to address this unfolding humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most districts in the South are in the grip of a nutrition emergency with Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) in children under five almost doubling over the last four months, touching an alarming 16.5 percent, as per a recent assessment conducted by the Ministry of Health. Worst affected is the district of Ambovombe where GAM has crossed 27 percent, putting the lives of many children at risk. Children with acute malnutrition are four times more likely to die than healthy children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe scale of the catastrophe is beyond belief. If we don\u2019t reverse this crisis, if we don\u2019t get food to the people in the south of Madagascar, families will starve and lives will be lost,\u201d said WFP\u2019s Senior Director of Operations, Amer Daoudi who today visited one of the worst affected areas, Sihanamaro, accompanied by a high-level delegation of ambassadors and senior government officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe have witnessed heart-breaking scenes of severely malnourished children and starving families. We need the money and resources now to help the people of Madagascar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WFP needs US$74 million for the next six months to save the lives in southern Madagascar and prevent a catastrophe. Following alarm calls received from Amboasary district on the severity of the food crisis, WFP has been progressively assisting up to 750,000 people through food and cash distributions each month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Consecutive years of drought in the South have left at least 1.35 million people in need of emergency food and nutrition assistance. The situation has been critical since September 2020, the start of the lean season when families had already depleted their food supplies and eaten their vital seed stocks, leaving nothing for the November\/December 2020 planting season. Currently, up to 80% of the population in certain areas in the south is resorting to desperate survival measures such as eating locusts, raw red cactus fruits or wild leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 2021 harvest prospects are poor, with the failure of the rains during the last planting season indicating another failed harvest and as a result a longer tougher lean season (from October 2021 to March 2022). Food production in 2021 is expected to be less than 40 percent of the last five-year average, making it harder for communities on the brink of survival to feed themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Semi-arid conditions in southern Madagascar, combined with high levels of soil erosion, deforestation and unprecedented drastic sandstorms, have covered croplands and pasture with sand and transformed arable land into wasteland across the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBeyond the immediate crisis, we also need to invest in peace, so that in the future, desperate families are not forced to the brink of survival by the bullet and the bomb. The costs of this violence are immense: just in 2019 $14.5 trillion dollars a year \u2013 15 percent of global GDP. It would take a fraction of this money to fund the development programmes that could transform the lives of people in fragile, conflict-scarred nations \u2013 and help lay new pathways to peace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Full transcript<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Photos<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Video footage<\/a><\/strong> from Yemen<\/p>\n\n\n\n # # #<\/p>\n\n\n\n The United Nations World Food Programme is the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. We are the world\u2019s largest humanitarian organization, saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow us on Twitter @wfp_media<\/p>\n","post_title":"Yemen is heading toward the biggest famine in modern history, WFP Chief warns UN Security Council","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"yemen-is-heading-toward-the-biggest-famine-in-modern-history-wfp-chief-warns-un-security-council","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5444","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5434,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-06-13 21:12:17","post_date_gmt":"2021-06-13 21:12:17","post_content":"\n originally published:<\/em> 29 April 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.wfp.org\/news\/southern-madagascar-brink-famine-warns-wfp<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR \u2013 The unrelenting drought in southern Madagascar is forcing hundreds of thousands of people to the brink of famine, warns the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). With acute malnutrition rates continuing to rise, urgent action is required to address this unfolding humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most districts in the South are in the grip of a nutrition emergency with Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) in children under five almost doubling over the last four months, touching an alarming 16.5 percent, as per a recent assessment conducted by the Ministry of Health. Worst affected is the district of Ambovombe where GAM has crossed 27 percent, putting the lives of many children at risk. Children with acute malnutrition are four times more likely to die than healthy children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe scale of the catastrophe is beyond belief. If we don\u2019t reverse this crisis, if we don\u2019t get food to the people in the south of Madagascar, families will starve and lives will be lost,\u201d said WFP\u2019s Senior Director of Operations, Amer Daoudi who today visited one of the worst affected areas, Sihanamaro, accompanied by a high-level delegation of ambassadors and senior government officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe have witnessed heart-breaking scenes of severely malnourished children and starving families. We need the money and resources now to help the people of Madagascar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WFP needs US$74 million for the next six months to save the lives in southern Madagascar and prevent a catastrophe. Following alarm calls received from Amboasary district on the severity of the food crisis, WFP has been progressively assisting up to 750,000 people through food and cash distributions each month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Consecutive years of drought in the South have left at least 1.35 million people in need of emergency food and nutrition assistance. The situation has been critical since September 2020, the start of the lean season when families had already depleted their food supplies and eaten their vital seed stocks, leaving nothing for the November\/December 2020 planting season. Currently, up to 80% of the population in certain areas in the south is resorting to desperate survival measures such as eating locusts, raw red cactus fruits or wild leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 2021 harvest prospects are poor, with the failure of the rains during the last planting season indicating another failed harvest and as a result a longer tougher lean season (from October 2021 to March 2022). Food production in 2021 is expected to be less than 40 percent of the last five-year average, making it harder for communities on the brink of survival to feed themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Semi-arid conditions in southern Madagascar, combined with high levels of soil erosion, deforestation and unprecedented drastic sandstorms, have covered croplands and pasture with sand and transformed arable land into wasteland across the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThese looming famines have two things in common: they are primarily driven by conflict, and they are entirely preventable\u2026 The cycle of violence, hunger and despair pulls in more and more individuals and families as the weeks and months pass. But the potential consequences are truly global: economic deterioration, destabilization, mass migration and starvation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBeyond the immediate crisis, we also need to invest in peace, so that in the future, desperate families are not forced to the brink of survival by the bullet and the bomb. The costs of this violence are immense: just in 2019 $14.5 trillion dollars a year \u2013 15 percent of global GDP. It would take a fraction of this money to fund the development programmes that could transform the lives of people in fragile, conflict-scarred nations \u2013 and help lay new pathways to peace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Full transcript<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Photos<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Video footage<\/a><\/strong> from Yemen<\/p>\n\n\n\n # # #<\/p>\n\n\n\n The United Nations World Food Programme is the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. We are the world\u2019s largest humanitarian organization, saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow us on Twitter @wfp_media<\/p>\n","post_title":"Yemen is heading toward the biggest famine in modern history, WFP Chief warns UN Security Council","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"yemen-is-heading-toward-the-biggest-famine-in-modern-history-wfp-chief-warns-un-security-council","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5444","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5434,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-06-13 21:12:17","post_date_gmt":"2021-06-13 21:12:17","post_content":"\n originally published:<\/em> 29 April 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.wfp.org\/news\/southern-madagascar-brink-famine-warns-wfp<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR \u2013 The unrelenting drought in southern Madagascar is forcing hundreds of thousands of people to the brink of famine, warns the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). With acute malnutrition rates continuing to rise, urgent action is required to address this unfolding humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most districts in the South are in the grip of a nutrition emergency with Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) in children under five almost doubling over the last four months, touching an alarming 16.5 percent, as per a recent assessment conducted by the Ministry of Health. Worst affected is the district of Ambovombe where GAM has crossed 27 percent, putting the lives of many children at risk. Children with acute malnutrition are four times more likely to die than healthy children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe scale of the catastrophe is beyond belief. If we don\u2019t reverse this crisis, if we don\u2019t get food to the people in the south of Madagascar, families will starve and lives will be lost,\u201d said WFP\u2019s Senior Director of Operations, Amer Daoudi who today visited one of the worst affected areas, Sihanamaro, accompanied by a high-level delegation of ambassadors and senior government officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe have witnessed heart-breaking scenes of severely malnourished children and starving families. We need the money and resources now to help the people of Madagascar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WFP needs US$74 million for the next six months to save the lives in southern Madagascar and prevent a catastrophe. Following alarm calls received from Amboasary district on the severity of the food crisis, WFP has been progressively assisting up to 750,000 people through food and cash distributions each month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Consecutive years of drought in the South have left at least 1.35 million people in need of emergency food and nutrition assistance. The situation has been critical since September 2020, the start of the lean season when families had already depleted their food supplies and eaten their vital seed stocks, leaving nothing for the November\/December 2020 planting season. Currently, up to 80% of the population in certain areas in the south is resorting to desperate survival measures such as eating locusts, raw red cactus fruits or wild leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 2021 harvest prospects are poor, with the failure of the rains during the last planting season indicating another failed harvest and as a result a longer tougher lean season (from October 2021 to March 2022). Food production in 2021 is expected to be less than 40 percent of the last five-year average, making it harder for communities on the brink of survival to feed themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Semi-arid conditions in southern Madagascar, combined with high levels of soil erosion, deforestation and unprecedented drastic sandstorms, have covered croplands and pasture with sand and transformed arable land into wasteland across the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMan made conflict is driving instability and powering a destructive new wave of famine that threatens to sweep across the world. The toll being paid in human misery is unimaginable. So I want to thank the Secretary-General for his leadership in trying to avert these famines.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThese looming famines have two things in common: they are primarily driven by conflict, and they are entirely preventable\u2026 The cycle of violence, hunger and despair pulls in more and more individuals and families as the weeks and months pass. But the potential consequences are truly global: economic deterioration, destabilization, mass migration and starvation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBeyond the immediate crisis, we also need to invest in peace, so that in the future, desperate families are not forced to the brink of survival by the bullet and the bomb. The costs of this violence are immense: just in 2019 $14.5 trillion dollars a year \u2013 15 percent of global GDP. It would take a fraction of this money to fund the development programmes that could transform the lives of people in fragile, conflict-scarred nations \u2013 and help lay new pathways to peace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Full transcript<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Photos<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Video footage<\/a><\/strong> from Yemen<\/p>\n\n\n\n # # #<\/p>\n\n\n\n The United Nations World Food Programme is the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. We are the world\u2019s largest humanitarian organization, saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow us on Twitter @wfp_media<\/p>\n","post_title":"Yemen is heading toward the biggest famine in modern history, WFP Chief warns UN Security Council","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"yemen-is-heading-toward-the-biggest-famine-in-modern-history-wfp-chief-warns-un-security-council","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5444","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5434,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-06-13 21:12:17","post_date_gmt":"2021-06-13 21:12:17","post_content":"\n originally published:<\/em> 29 April 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.wfp.org\/news\/southern-madagascar-brink-famine-warns-wfp<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR \u2013 The unrelenting drought in southern Madagascar is forcing hundreds of thousands of people to the brink of famine, warns the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). With acute malnutrition rates continuing to rise, urgent action is required to address this unfolding humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most districts in the South are in the grip of a nutrition emergency with Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) in children under five almost doubling over the last four months, touching an alarming 16.5 percent, as per a recent assessment conducted by the Ministry of Health. Worst affected is the district of Ambovombe where GAM has crossed 27 percent, putting the lives of many children at risk. Children with acute malnutrition are four times more likely to die than healthy children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe scale of the catastrophe is beyond belief. If we don\u2019t reverse this crisis, if we don\u2019t get food to the people in the south of Madagascar, families will starve and lives will be lost,\u201d said WFP\u2019s Senior Director of Operations, Amer Daoudi who today visited one of the worst affected areas, Sihanamaro, accompanied by a high-level delegation of ambassadors and senior government officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe have witnessed heart-breaking scenes of severely malnourished children and starving families. We need the money and resources now to help the people of Madagascar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WFP needs US$74 million for the next six months to save the lives in southern Madagascar and prevent a catastrophe. Following alarm calls received from Amboasary district on the severity of the food crisis, WFP has been progressively assisting up to 750,000 people through food and cash distributions each month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Consecutive years of drought in the South have left at least 1.35 million people in need of emergency food and nutrition assistance. The situation has been critical since September 2020, the start of the lean season when families had already depleted their food supplies and eaten their vital seed stocks, leaving nothing for the November\/December 2020 planting season. Currently, up to 80% of the population in certain areas in the south is resorting to desperate survival measures such as eating locusts, raw red cactus fruits or wild leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 2021 harvest prospects are poor, with the failure of the rains during the last planting season indicating another failed harvest and as a result a longer tougher lean season (from October 2021 to March 2022). Food production in 2021 is expected to be less than 40 percent of the last five-year average, making it harder for communities on the brink of survival to feed themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Semi-arid conditions in southern Madagascar, combined with high levels of soil erosion, deforestation and unprecedented drastic sandstorms, have covered croplands and pasture with sand and transformed arable land into wasteland across the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On conflict and hunger:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMan made conflict is driving instability and powering a destructive new wave of famine that threatens to sweep across the world. The toll being paid in human misery is unimaginable. So I want to thank the Secretary-General for his leadership in trying to avert these famines.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThese looming famines have two things in common: they are primarily driven by conflict, and they are entirely preventable\u2026 The cycle of violence, hunger and despair pulls in more and more individuals and families as the weeks and months pass. But the potential consequences are truly global: economic deterioration, destabilization, mass migration and starvation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBeyond the immediate crisis, we also need to invest in peace, so that in the future, desperate families are not forced to the brink of survival by the bullet and the bomb. The costs of this violence are immense: just in 2019 $14.5 trillion dollars a year \u2013 15 percent of global GDP. It would take a fraction of this money to fund the development programmes that could transform the lives of people in fragile, conflict-scarred nations \u2013 and help lay new pathways to peace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Full transcript<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Photos<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Video footage<\/a><\/strong> from Yemen<\/p>\n\n\n\n # # #<\/p>\n\n\n\n The United Nations World Food Programme is the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. We are the world\u2019s largest humanitarian organization, saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow us on Twitter @wfp_media<\/p>\n","post_title":"Yemen is heading toward the biggest famine in modern history, WFP Chief warns UN Security Council","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"yemen-is-heading-toward-the-biggest-famine-in-modern-history-wfp-chief-warns-un-security-council","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5444","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5434,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-06-13 21:12:17","post_date_gmt":"2021-06-13 21:12:17","post_content":"\n originally published:<\/em> 29 April 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.wfp.org\/news\/southern-madagascar-brink-famine-warns-wfp<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR \u2013 The unrelenting drought in southern Madagascar is forcing hundreds of thousands of people to the brink of famine, warns the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). With acute malnutrition rates continuing to rise, urgent action is required to address this unfolding humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most districts in the South are in the grip of a nutrition emergency with Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) in children under five almost doubling over the last four months, touching an alarming 16.5 percent, as per a recent assessment conducted by the Ministry of Health. Worst affected is the district of Ambovombe where GAM has crossed 27 percent, putting the lives of many children at risk. Children with acute malnutrition are four times more likely to die than healthy children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe scale of the catastrophe is beyond belief. If we don\u2019t reverse this crisis, if we don\u2019t get food to the people in the south of Madagascar, families will starve and lives will be lost,\u201d said WFP\u2019s Senior Director of Operations, Amer Daoudi who today visited one of the worst affected areas, Sihanamaro, accompanied by a high-level delegation of ambassadors and senior government officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe have witnessed heart-breaking scenes of severely malnourished children and starving families. We need the money and resources now to help the people of Madagascar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WFP needs US$74 million for the next six months to save the lives in southern Madagascar and prevent a catastrophe. Following alarm calls received from Amboasary district on the severity of the food crisis, WFP has been progressively assisting up to 750,000 people through food and cash distributions each month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Consecutive years of drought in the South have left at least 1.35 million people in need of emergency food and nutrition assistance. The situation has been critical since September 2020, the start of the lean season when families had already depleted their food supplies and eaten their vital seed stocks, leaving nothing for the November\/December 2020 planting season. Currently, up to 80% of the population in certain areas in the south is resorting to desperate survival measures such as eating locusts, raw red cactus fruits or wild leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 2021 harvest prospects are poor, with the failure of the rains during the last planting season indicating another failed harvest and as a result a longer tougher lean season (from October 2021 to March 2022). Food production in 2021 is expected to be less than 40 percent of the last five-year average, making it harder for communities on the brink of survival to feed themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Semi-arid conditions in southern Madagascar, combined with high levels of soil erosion, deforestation and unprecedented drastic sandstorms, have covered croplands and pasture with sand and transformed arable land into wasteland across the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTo add to all their misery, the innocent people of Yemen have to deal with a fuel blockade. For example, most hospitals only have electricity in their intensive care units because fuel reserves are so low. I know this first-hand because I\u2019ve walked in the hospital. And the lights were off. The electricity was off. The people of Yemen deserve our help. That blockade must be lifted, as a humanitarian act. Otherwise, millions more will spiral into crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n On conflict and hunger:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMan made conflict is driving instability and powering a destructive new wave of famine that threatens to sweep across the world. The toll being paid in human misery is unimaginable. So I want to thank the Secretary-General for his leadership in trying to avert these famines.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThese looming famines have two things in common: they are primarily driven by conflict, and they are entirely preventable\u2026 The cycle of violence, hunger and despair pulls in more and more individuals and families as the weeks and months pass. But the potential consequences are truly global: economic deterioration, destabilization, mass migration and starvation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBeyond the immediate crisis, we also need to invest in peace, so that in the future, desperate families are not forced to the brink of survival by the bullet and the bomb. The costs of this violence are immense: just in 2019 $14.5 trillion dollars a year \u2013 15 percent of global GDP. It would take a fraction of this money to fund the development programmes that could transform the lives of people in fragile, conflict-scarred nations \u2013 and help lay new pathways to peace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Full transcript<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Photos<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Video footage<\/a><\/strong> from Yemen<\/p>\n\n\n\n # # #<\/p>\n\n\n\n The United Nations World Food Programme is the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. We are the world\u2019s largest humanitarian organization, saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow us on Twitter @wfp_media<\/p>\n","post_title":"Yemen is heading toward the biggest famine in modern history, WFP Chief warns UN Security Council","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"yemen-is-heading-toward-the-biggest-famine-in-modern-history-wfp-chief-warns-un-security-council","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5444","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5434,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-06-13 21:12:17","post_date_gmt":"2021-06-13 21:12:17","post_content":"\n originally published:<\/em> 29 April 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.wfp.org\/news\/southern-madagascar-brink-famine-warns-wfp<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR \u2013 The unrelenting drought in southern Madagascar is forcing hundreds of thousands of people to the brink of famine, warns the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). With acute malnutrition rates continuing to rise, urgent action is required to address this unfolding humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most districts in the South are in the grip of a nutrition emergency with Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) in children under five almost doubling over the last four months, touching an alarming 16.5 percent, as per a recent assessment conducted by the Ministry of Health. Worst affected is the district of Ambovombe where GAM has crossed 27 percent, putting the lives of many children at risk. Children with acute malnutrition are four times more likely to die than healthy children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe scale of the catastrophe is beyond belief. If we don\u2019t reverse this crisis, if we don\u2019t get food to the people in the south of Madagascar, families will starve and lives will be lost,\u201d said WFP\u2019s Senior Director of Operations, Amer Daoudi who today visited one of the worst affected areas, Sihanamaro, accompanied by a high-level delegation of ambassadors and senior government officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe have witnessed heart-breaking scenes of severely malnourished children and starving families. We need the money and resources now to help the people of Madagascar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WFP needs US$74 million for the next six months to save the lives in southern Madagascar and prevent a catastrophe. Following alarm calls received from Amboasary district on the severity of the food crisis, WFP has been progressively assisting up to 750,000 people through food and cash distributions each month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Consecutive years of drought in the South have left at least 1.35 million people in need of emergency food and nutrition assistance. The situation has been critical since September 2020, the start of the lean season when families had already depleted their food supplies and eaten their vital seed stocks, leaving nothing for the November\/December 2020 planting season. Currently, up to 80% of the population in certain areas in the south is resorting to desperate survival measures such as eating locusts, raw red cactus fruits or wild leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 2021 harvest prospects are poor, with the failure of the rains during the last planting season indicating another failed harvest and as a result a longer tougher lean season (from October 2021 to March 2022). Food production in 2021 is expected to be less than 40 percent of the last five-year average, making it harder for communities on the brink of survival to feed themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Semi-arid conditions in southern Madagascar, combined with high levels of soil erosion, deforestation and unprecedented drastic sandstorms, have covered croplands and pasture with sand and transformed arable land into wasteland across the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAround 400,000 children may die in Yemen this year without urgent intervention. That is roughly one child every 75 seconds. So, while we\u2019re sitting here, every minute and a quarter, a child is dying. Are we really going to turn our backs on them and look the other way?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTo add to all their misery, the innocent people of Yemen have to deal with a fuel blockade. For example, most hospitals only have electricity in their intensive care units because fuel reserves are so low. I know this first-hand because I\u2019ve walked in the hospital. And the lights were off. The electricity was off. The people of Yemen deserve our help. That blockade must be lifted, as a humanitarian act. Otherwise, millions more will spiral into crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n On conflict and hunger:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMan made conflict is driving instability and powering a destructive new wave of famine that threatens to sweep across the world. The toll being paid in human misery is unimaginable. So I want to thank the Secretary-General for his leadership in trying to avert these famines.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThese looming famines have two things in common: they are primarily driven by conflict, and they are entirely preventable\u2026 The cycle of violence, hunger and despair pulls in more and more individuals and families as the weeks and months pass. But the potential consequences are truly global: economic deterioration, destabilization, mass migration and starvation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBeyond the immediate crisis, we also need to invest in peace, so that in the future, desperate families are not forced to the brink of survival by the bullet and the bomb. The costs of this violence are immense: just in 2019 $14.5 trillion dollars a year \u2013 15 percent of global GDP. It would take a fraction of this money to fund the development programmes that could transform the lives of people in fragile, conflict-scarred nations \u2013 and help lay new pathways to peace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Full transcript<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Photos<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Video footage<\/a><\/strong> from Yemen<\/p>\n\n\n\n # # #<\/p>\n\n\n\n The United Nations World Food Programme is the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. We are the world\u2019s largest humanitarian organization, saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow us on Twitter @wfp_media<\/p>\n","post_title":"Yemen is heading toward the biggest famine in modern history, WFP Chief warns UN Security Council","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"yemen-is-heading-toward-the-biggest-famine-in-modern-history-wfp-chief-warns-un-security-council","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5444","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5434,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-06-13 21:12:17","post_date_gmt":"2021-06-13 21:12:17","post_content":"\n originally published:<\/em> 29 April 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.wfp.org\/news\/southern-madagascar-brink-famine-warns-wfp<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR \u2013 The unrelenting drought in southern Madagascar is forcing hundreds of thousands of people to the brink of famine, warns the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). With acute malnutrition rates continuing to rise, urgent action is required to address this unfolding humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most districts in the South are in the grip of a nutrition emergency with Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) in children under five almost doubling over the last four months, touching an alarming 16.5 percent, as per a recent assessment conducted by the Ministry of Health. Worst affected is the district of Ambovombe where GAM has crossed 27 percent, putting the lives of many children at risk. Children with acute malnutrition are four times more likely to die than healthy children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe scale of the catastrophe is beyond belief. If we don\u2019t reverse this crisis, if we don\u2019t get food to the people in the south of Madagascar, families will starve and lives will be lost,\u201d said WFP\u2019s Senior Director of Operations, Amer Daoudi who today visited one of the worst affected areas, Sihanamaro, accompanied by a high-level delegation of ambassadors and senior government officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe have witnessed heart-breaking scenes of severely malnourished children and starving families. We need the money and resources now to help the people of Madagascar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WFP needs US$74 million for the next six months to save the lives in southern Madagascar and prevent a catastrophe. Following alarm calls received from Amboasary district on the severity of the food crisis, WFP has been progressively assisting up to 750,000 people through food and cash distributions each month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Consecutive years of drought in the South have left at least 1.35 million people in need of emergency food and nutrition assistance. The situation has been critical since September 2020, the start of the lean season when families had already depleted their food supplies and eaten their vital seed stocks, leaving nothing for the November\/December 2020 planting season. Currently, up to 80% of the population in certain areas in the south is resorting to desperate survival measures such as eating locusts, raw red cactus fruits or wild leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 2021 harvest prospects are poor, with the failure of the rains during the last planting season indicating another failed harvest and as a result a longer tougher lean season (from October 2021 to March 2022). Food production in 2021 is expected to be less than 40 percent of the last five-year average, making it harder for communities on the brink of survival to feed themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Semi-arid conditions in southern Madagascar, combined with high levels of soil erosion, deforestation and unprecedented drastic sandstorms, have covered croplands and pasture with sand and transformed arable land into wasteland across the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cJust two days ago, I was in Yemen, where over 16 million people now face crisis levels of hunger or worse. These aren\u2019t just numbers. These are real people. And we are headed straight toward the biggest famine in modern history. It is hell on earth in many places in Yemen right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAround 400,000 children may die in Yemen this year without urgent intervention. That is roughly one child every 75 seconds. So, while we\u2019re sitting here, every minute and a quarter, a child is dying. Are we really going to turn our backs on them and look the other way?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTo add to all their misery, the innocent people of Yemen have to deal with a fuel blockade. For example, most hospitals only have electricity in their intensive care units because fuel reserves are so low. I know this first-hand because I\u2019ve walked in the hospital. And the lights were off. The electricity was off. The people of Yemen deserve our help. That blockade must be lifted, as a humanitarian act. Otherwise, millions more will spiral into crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n On conflict and hunger:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMan made conflict is driving instability and powering a destructive new wave of famine that threatens to sweep across the world. The toll being paid in human misery is unimaginable. So I want to thank the Secretary-General for his leadership in trying to avert these famines.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThese looming famines have two things in common: they are primarily driven by conflict, and they are entirely preventable\u2026 The cycle of violence, hunger and despair pulls in more and more individuals and families as the weeks and months pass. But the potential consequences are truly global: economic deterioration, destabilization, mass migration and starvation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBeyond the immediate crisis, we also need to invest in peace, so that in the future, desperate families are not forced to the brink of survival by the bullet and the bomb. The costs of this violence are immense: just in 2019 $14.5 trillion dollars a year \u2013 15 percent of global GDP. It would take a fraction of this money to fund the development programmes that could transform the lives of people in fragile, conflict-scarred nations \u2013 and help lay new pathways to peace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Full transcript<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Photos<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Video footage<\/a><\/strong> from Yemen<\/p>\n\n\n\n # # #<\/p>\n\n\n\n The United Nations World Food Programme is the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. We are the world\u2019s largest humanitarian organization, saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow us on Twitter @wfp_media<\/p>\n","post_title":"Yemen is heading toward the biggest famine in modern history, WFP Chief warns UN Security Council","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"yemen-is-heading-toward-the-biggest-famine-in-modern-history-wfp-chief-warns-un-security-council","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5444","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5434,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-06-13 21:12:17","post_date_gmt":"2021-06-13 21:12:17","post_content":"\n originally published:<\/em> 29 April 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.wfp.org\/news\/southern-madagascar-brink-famine-warns-wfp<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR \u2013 The unrelenting drought in southern Madagascar is forcing hundreds of thousands of people to the brink of famine, warns the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). With acute malnutrition rates continuing to rise, urgent action is required to address this unfolding humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most districts in the South are in the grip of a nutrition emergency with Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) in children under five almost doubling over the last four months, touching an alarming 16.5 percent, as per a recent assessment conducted by the Ministry of Health. Worst affected is the district of Ambovombe where GAM has crossed 27 percent, putting the lives of many children at risk. Children with acute malnutrition are four times more likely to die than healthy children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe scale of the catastrophe is beyond belief. If we don\u2019t reverse this crisis, if we don\u2019t get food to the people in the south of Madagascar, families will starve and lives will be lost,\u201d said WFP\u2019s Senior Director of Operations, Amer Daoudi who today visited one of the worst affected areas, Sihanamaro, accompanied by a high-level delegation of ambassadors and senior government officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe have witnessed heart-breaking scenes of severely malnourished children and starving families. We need the money and resources now to help the people of Madagascar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WFP needs US$74 million for the next six months to save the lives in southern Madagascar and prevent a catastrophe. Following alarm calls received from Amboasary district on the severity of the food crisis, WFP has been progressively assisting up to 750,000 people through food and cash distributions each month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Consecutive years of drought in the South have left at least 1.35 million people in need of emergency food and nutrition assistance. The situation has been critical since September 2020, the start of the lean season when families had already depleted their food supplies and eaten their vital seed stocks, leaving nothing for the November\/December 2020 planting season. Currently, up to 80% of the population in certain areas in the south is resorting to desperate survival measures such as eating locusts, raw red cactus fruits or wild leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 2021 harvest prospects are poor, with the failure of the rains during the last planting season indicating another failed harvest and as a result a longer tougher lean season (from October 2021 to March 2022). Food production in 2021 is expected to be less than 40 percent of the last five-year average, making it harder for communities on the brink of survival to feed themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Semi-arid conditions in southern Madagascar, combined with high levels of soil erosion, deforestation and unprecedented drastic sandstorms, have covered croplands and pasture with sand and transformed arable land into wasteland across the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Yemen:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cJust two days ago, I was in Yemen, where over 16 million people now face crisis levels of hunger or worse. These aren\u2019t just numbers. These are real people. And we are headed straight toward the biggest famine in modern history. It is hell on earth in many places in Yemen right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAround 400,000 children may die in Yemen this year without urgent intervention. That is roughly one child every 75 seconds. So, while we\u2019re sitting here, every minute and a quarter, a child is dying. Are we really going to turn our backs on them and look the other way?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTo add to all their misery, the innocent people of Yemen have to deal with a fuel blockade. For example, most hospitals only have electricity in their intensive care units because fuel reserves are so low. I know this first-hand because I\u2019ve walked in the hospital. And the lights were off. The electricity was off. The people of Yemen deserve our help. That blockade must be lifted, as a humanitarian act. Otherwise, millions more will spiral into crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n On conflict and hunger:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMan made conflict is driving instability and powering a destructive new wave of famine that threatens to sweep across the world. The toll being paid in human misery is unimaginable. So I want to thank the Secretary-General for his leadership in trying to avert these famines.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThese looming famines have two things in common: they are primarily driven by conflict, and they are entirely preventable\u2026 The cycle of violence, hunger and despair pulls in more and more individuals and families as the weeks and months pass. But the potential consequences are truly global: economic deterioration, destabilization, mass migration and starvation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBeyond the immediate crisis, we also need to invest in peace, so that in the future, desperate families are not forced to the brink of survival by the bullet and the bomb. The costs of this violence are immense: just in 2019 $14.5 trillion dollars a year \u2013 15 percent of global GDP. It would take a fraction of this money to fund the development programmes that could transform the lives of people in fragile, conflict-scarred nations \u2013 and help lay new pathways to peace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Full transcript<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Photos<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Video footage<\/a><\/strong> from Yemen<\/p>\n\n\n\n # # #<\/p>\n\n\n\n The United Nations World Food Programme is the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. We are the world\u2019s largest humanitarian organization, saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow us on Twitter @wfp_media<\/p>\n","post_title":"Yemen is heading toward the biggest famine in modern history, WFP Chief warns UN Security Council","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"yemen-is-heading-toward-the-biggest-famine-in-modern-history-wfp-chief-warns-un-security-council","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5444","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5434,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-06-13 21:12:17","post_date_gmt":"2021-06-13 21:12:17","post_content":"\n originally published:<\/em> 29 April 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.wfp.org\/news\/southern-madagascar-brink-famine-warns-wfp<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR \u2013 The unrelenting drought in southern Madagascar is forcing hundreds of thousands of people to the brink of famine, warns the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). With acute malnutrition rates continuing to rise, urgent action is required to address this unfolding humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most districts in the South are in the grip of a nutrition emergency with Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) in children under five almost doubling over the last four months, touching an alarming 16.5 percent, as per a recent assessment conducted by the Ministry of Health. Worst affected is the district of Ambovombe where GAM has crossed 27 percent, putting the lives of many children at risk. Children with acute malnutrition are four times more likely to die than healthy children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe scale of the catastrophe is beyond belief. If we don\u2019t reverse this crisis, if we don\u2019t get food to the people in the south of Madagascar, families will starve and lives will be lost,\u201d said WFP\u2019s Senior Director of Operations, Amer Daoudi who today visited one of the worst affected areas, Sihanamaro, accompanied by a high-level delegation of ambassadors and senior government officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe have witnessed heart-breaking scenes of severely malnourished children and starving families. We need the money and resources now to help the people of Madagascar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WFP needs US$74 million for the next six months to save the lives in southern Madagascar and prevent a catastrophe. Following alarm calls received from Amboasary district on the severity of the food crisis, WFP has been progressively assisting up to 750,000 people through food and cash distributions each month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Consecutive years of drought in the South have left at least 1.35 million people in need of emergency food and nutrition assistance. The situation has been critical since September 2020, the start of the lean season when families had already depleted their food supplies and eaten their vital seed stocks, leaving nothing for the November\/December 2020 planting season. Currently, up to 80% of the population in certain areas in the south is resorting to desperate survival measures such as eating locusts, raw red cactus fruits or wild leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 2021 harvest prospects are poor, with the failure of the rains during the last planting season indicating another failed harvest and as a result a longer tougher lean season (from October 2021 to March 2022). Food production in 2021 is expected to be less than 40 percent of the last five-year average, making it harder for communities on the brink of survival to feed themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Semi-arid conditions in southern Madagascar, combined with high levels of soil erosion, deforestation and unprecedented drastic sandstorms, have covered croplands and pasture with sand and transformed arable land into wasteland across the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NEW YORK \u2013 The UN World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director, David Beasley, addressed the United Nations Security Council today on Yemen, conflict and food insecurity. Here are selected highlights from his remarks<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Yemen:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cJust two days ago, I was in Yemen, where over 16 million people now face crisis levels of hunger or worse. These aren\u2019t just numbers. These are real people. And we are headed straight toward the biggest famine in modern history. It is hell on earth in many places in Yemen right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAround 400,000 children may die in Yemen this year without urgent intervention. That is roughly one child every 75 seconds. So, while we\u2019re sitting here, every minute and a quarter, a child is dying. Are we really going to turn our backs on them and look the other way?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTo add to all their misery, the innocent people of Yemen have to deal with a fuel blockade. For example, most hospitals only have electricity in their intensive care units because fuel reserves are so low. I know this first-hand because I\u2019ve walked in the hospital. And the lights were off. The electricity was off. The people of Yemen deserve our help. That blockade must be lifted, as a humanitarian act. Otherwise, millions more will spiral into crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n On conflict and hunger:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMan made conflict is driving instability and powering a destructive new wave of famine that threatens to sweep across the world. The toll being paid in human misery is unimaginable. So I want to thank the Secretary-General for his leadership in trying to avert these famines.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThese looming famines have two things in common: they are primarily driven by conflict, and they are entirely preventable\u2026 The cycle of violence, hunger and despair pulls in more and more individuals and families as the weeks and months pass. But the potential consequences are truly global: economic deterioration, destabilization, mass migration and starvation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBeyond the immediate crisis, we also need to invest in peace, so that in the future, desperate families are not forced to the brink of survival by the bullet and the bomb. The costs of this violence are immense: just in 2019 $14.5 trillion dollars a year \u2013 15 percent of global GDP. It would take a fraction of this money to fund the development programmes that could transform the lives of people in fragile, conflict-scarred nations \u2013 and help lay new pathways to peace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Full transcript<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Photos<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Video footage<\/a><\/strong> from Yemen<\/p>\n\n\n\n # # #<\/p>\n\n\n\n The United Nations World Food Programme is the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. We are the world\u2019s largest humanitarian organization, saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow us on Twitter @wfp_media<\/p>\n","post_title":"Yemen is heading toward the biggest famine in modern history, WFP Chief warns UN Security Council","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"yemen-is-heading-toward-the-biggest-famine-in-modern-history-wfp-chief-warns-un-security-council","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5444","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5434,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-06-13 21:12:17","post_date_gmt":"2021-06-13 21:12:17","post_content":"\n
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