On behalf of more than 1,900 humanitarian partners worldwide, the United Nations launched its global appeal for 2024. More than 180 million people need life-saving assistance and protection.
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On behalf of more than 1,900 humanitarian partners worldwide, the United Nations launched its global appeal for 2024. More than 180 million people need life-saving assistance and protection.
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A 25% rise in food insecurity increases the risk of conflict by 36%, while a 25% increase in the number of people without access to clean water increases the likelihood of conflict by 18%, says IEP.
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The number of movements in which people fled in search of safety and shelter - sometimes more than once - was also unprecedented in 2022, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.
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In 2022, 258 million people across 58 countries and territories faced acute food insecurity at crisis or worse levels (IPC/CH Phase 3-5), up from 193 million in 53 countries and territories in 2021.
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The countries on this list all have something in common – despite contributing little to greenhouse gas emissions, they are especially vulnerable to the effects of global warming.
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A new report from Action Against Hunger found that countries experiencing the worst hunger crises received less targeted hunger funding than countries with lower rates of food insecurity.
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CARE's research with communities in Somalia, for example, a country in the grip of an escalating hunger crisis, indicates a 200% increase in violence against women and girls between 2021 and 2022.
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Without a massively scaled up humanitarian response that has at its core time-sensitive and life-saving agricultural assistance, the situation will likely worsen in many countries in the coming months.
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The NRC report notes that the worsening effects of climate change threaten to be a significant compounding factor across many fragile and conflict-affected states.
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These countries all had parts of populations identified or projected to experience starvation and death (Catastrophe, IPC Phase 5), requiring the most urgent attention, according to FAO and WFP.
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This number is a significant increase from 235 million people a year ago. The UN and partner organizations aim to assist 183 million people across 63 countries, which will require $41 billion.
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Efforts to fight a global surge in acute food insecurity are being stymied in several countries by fighting and blockades that cut off life-saving aid to families on the brink of famine, warn FAO and WFP.
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Crises in Africa dominated the Norwegian Refugee Council’s annual list once again, with DR Congo followed by Cameroon, Burundi, Venezuela, Honduras, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, CAR, and Mali.
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Conflict, economic shocks – including due to COVID-19, extreme weather – pushed at least 155 million people into acute food insecurity in 2020, says coalition of UN, EU, NGOs and government agencies.
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The situation may worsen in the coming months especially between June and August. The socio-economic impacts of Covid-19 have become wider and deeper particularly in developing countries.
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Yemen, South Sudan and northern Nigeria top the list and face catastrophic levels of acute hunger, with pockets of South Sudan and Yemen already in the grip of - or at risk of - starvation and death.
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More than 34 million people across the world are in IPC Phase 4 and facing emergency levels of acute food insecurity are highly vulnerable to famine without urgent immediate life-saving action.
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About 14.6 million new internal displacements were recorded across 127 countries and territories between January and June 2020, according to a new report by Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.
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While the greatest need is in Africa, countries in Latin America, Caribbean and Middle East and Asia - including middle-income countries - are also being ravaged by crippling levels of food insecurity.
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There is a real concern about the growing risk of famine, potentially even several famines at once. Before the pandemic hit, 27 million people were in “emergency” levels of acute food insecurity.