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Global hunger is reaching its highest level in years, while United Nations humanitarian food aid is shrinking due to a sharp drop in funding, the UN warns.<\/p>\n
“Severe hunger has doubled and two countries have declared a state of famine. The same countries are locked in a devastating cycle of hunger, fueled by conflict and exacerbated by lack of funding,” said the director of the World Food Programme. (WFP) of the UN, Cindy McCain, according to Politico.<\/p>\n
The report warns that this figure may not reflect the true situation on the ground, as 18 countries did not have usable data, which represents the lowest level of coverage in the past decade.<\/p>\n
For the first time in the report’s ten-year history, hunger was confirmed simultaneously in Gaza and Sudan, as a result of conflict and limited access to aid. humanitarian.<\/p>\n
Conflict has been a major cause of hunger in 19 countries, with more than 147 million people in need of emergency food assistance, representing more than half of the global total.<\/p>\n
Escalating conflict in the Middle East is already disrupting global fertilizer and energy markets, further straining countries dependent on food imports, which were already in crisis, he added. document.<\/p>\n
According to a comprehensive UN report, the number of people in the most critical stages of acute hunger has risen sharply since 2016, even as funding to address the problem has fallen.<\/p>\n
About 1.4 million people were on the brink of starvation last year in six countries and territories, compared to 155,000 in 2016, according to the Global Report on Food Crises published by The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization and the UN’s World Food Programme.<\/p>\n
Humanitarian and development spending on food crises has fallen to 2016-2017 levels, with US aid falling by almost 57 percent last year and significant reductions in Germany, France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n
The proportion of the population facing high levels of poverty is reported to be acute hunger has nearly doubled over the same period.<\/p>\n
The UN World Food Program lost more than $2.6 billion in funding and 6,000 jobs last year after US President Donald Trump’s administration cut the main US foreign aid agency, USAID, while other UN agencies, including the FAO, were also hit hard.<\/p>\n
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