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Hunger Hotspots: FAO-WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity, March to July 2021 outlook
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Posted 23 Mar 2021 Originally published 23 Mar 2021 Origin View originalAttachments
Acute hunger set to soar in over 20 countries, warn FAO and WFP: call for urgent and at-scale action to avert rising hunger and risk of famine
ROME -- Acute hunger is set to soar in over 20 countries in the coming months without urgent and scaled-up assistance, warn the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) in a new report issued today.
Yemen, South Sudan and northern Nigeria top the list and face catastrophic levels of acute hunger, with families in pockets of South Sudan and Yemen already in the grip of - or at risk of starvation and death according to the **Hunger Hotspots report. **
Although the majority of the affected countries are in Africa, acute hunger is due to rise steeply in most world regions - from Afghanistan in Asia, Syria and Lebanon in the Middle East, to Haiti in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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https://reliefweb.int/report/world/...acute-food-insecurity-march-july-2021-outlook
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Posted 23 Mar 2021 Originally published 23 Mar 2021 Origin View originalAttachments
Acute hunger set to soar in over 20 countries, warn FAO and WFP: call for urgent and at-scale action to avert rising hunger and risk of famine
ROME -- Acute hunger is set to soar in over 20 countries in the coming months without urgent and scaled-up assistance, warn the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) in a new report issued today.
Yemen, South Sudan and northern Nigeria top the list and face catastrophic levels of acute hunger, with families in pockets of South Sudan and Yemen already in the grip of - or at risk of starvation and death according to the **Hunger Hotspots report. **
Although the majority of the affected countries are in Africa, acute hunger is due to rise steeply in most world regions - from Afghanistan in Asia, Syria and Lebanon in the Middle East, to Haiti in Latin America and the Caribbean.
more...
https://reliefweb.int/report/world/...acute-food-insecurity-march-july-2021-outlook