Attachments
IN NUMBERS
- Out of every ten families, in the past two weeks:
- Nine in ten have insufficient food consumption
- Seven in ten have been forced to limit portions, resort to cheaper food and to borrowing food
- Five in ten have run out of food at least once in the last two weeks
- US$ 200 million urgently needed to cover needs until the end of the year.
Situation Update
Hunger is on the rise in Afghanistan; the proportion of the population reporting insufficient food consumption has escalated to 93 percent. This is 13 percentage points higher than the period prior to 15 August.
Households are resorting to multiple distressed coping mechanisms to put food on the table. Roughly three out of four households now: limit portion sizes (almost double that prior to 15 August) borrow food (74 percent up from 60 percent) or consumed cheaper food (up from 56 percent). The coping strategy index doubled, from 7.75 points to 15.6 points.
The number of adults employing the extreme strategy of restricting consumption rose from 14 percent to 26 percent. Furthermore households employing three or more food coping strategies also doubled from 32 percent to 61 percent.