Kabul: More than half of the Afghan population – a record of 22.8 million people – will face acute food insecurity from November, the UN organization said on Monday.
This data regarding acute hunger is revealed in a new report issued by the integrated food security phase classification (IPC) by food security and a group of Afghan agriculture, led by Food Organization and UN Agriculture and the UN World Food Program (WFP).
The WFP release states that the combined impact of dryness, conflict, Covid-19, and the economic crisis, has a very affected life, livelihood, and public access to food.
The reports finding came when a hard Afghan winter woven tool, threatened to cut areas in the country where families were very dependent on humanitarian aid to survive the frozen winter months.
IPC reports have found that more than one of two Afghans will face a crisis or level of acute food insecurity until 2021 November to 2022 March 2022, requires an urgent humanitarian intervention to meet basic food needs and prevent humanity disasters.
The report also notes that this is the highest number of unsafe foods that have been recorded in ten years of the United Nations have analyzed IPCs in Afghanistan.
Globally, Afghanistan is home to one of the largest number of people in acute food insecurity in the terms of absolute and relative “very urgently that we act efficiently and effectively to accelerate and increase our shipments in Afghanistan before winter cuts most countries, with millions of people – Including farmers, women, small children and parents – will starve in frozen winter.
This is a matter of life or die.
We cannot wait and see the humanitarian disaster taking place in front of us – it is not acceptable! “said Qu Dongyu, Director General of FAO.
“Afghanistan is now among the worst humanitarian crisis in the world – if not the worst – and food security all fainth.
This winter, millions of Afghans will be forced to choose between migration and hunger unless we can increase the help of our lives, and unless the economy can Investigated.
We are in a countdown to the disaster and if we do not act now, we will have a total disaster in our hands, “said David Beasley, WFP executive director.
“Hunger increases and children are dying.
We cannot feed people on funding commitments must turn into hard cash, and the international community must gather to overcome this crisis, which rotates quickly out of control,” Wasley warned.
IPC reports reflect a 37 percent increase in the amount of Afghanistan facing acute hunger since the latest assessment issued in April 2021, WFP said.
Among those who are at risk for 3.2 million children under five years are expected to suffer from acute malnutrition at the end of the year.
In October, WFP and UNICEF warned that one million children were at risk of death due to severe acute malnutrition without immediate treatment.