The international report has shown that the number of people in the world facing acute food insecurity and in need of urgent life-saving food assistance continues to grow at an alarming rate, especially in countries and regions where the scale and severity of the food crisis exceeds local resources and resources. containers.
Launched today by the Global Food Crisis Network, the report calls for the international community to mobilize to address the food crisis in the context of humanitarian aid, development and peace, noting that worrisome trends in food insecurity are the result of several factors ranging from conflicts to economic and health crises and poverty.
The report indicated that 193 million people in 53 countries or regions were severely food insecure between levels three and five during 2021, up 40 million people from 2020, including 570,000 people in Ethiopia, and Madagascar, South Sudan and Yemen are suffering from the most severe acute food insecurity is the fifth stage, and their situation requires urgent action to avoid a widespread collapse of livelihoods, starvation and death.
The Global Food Crisis Network is an international coalition of the United Nations, the European Union, governmental and non-governmental organizations that work together to tackle food crises.
