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(Ecofin Agency) – The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Program (WFP) have warned, through a joint report published on 6 November, of an increase in acute hunger in the world .
In “The Early Warning Analysis of Acute Food Insecurity Hotspots”, the two specialized agencies of the United Nations underline that the main factors of hunger are the multiplication and intensification of violence, economic crises aggravated by the socio-economic repercussions of covid-19, extreme weather events, cross-border threats such as the desert locust and lack of access to humanitarian aid.
A total of 20 countries are at greatest risk of acute food insecurity, of which fourteen are from Africa: Burkina Faso, Nigeria, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Cameroon, Central African Republic (CAR), Mali, Niger, Sierra Leone, Republic Democratic of Congo (DRC), Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Sudan.
According to the report, the situation is particularly worrying in some countries identified as red zones where levels of acute food insecurity are at their highest. In fact, Burkina Faso shows the largest increase, with the number of desperately hungry people nearly tripling to 3.3 million compared to 2019.
In Nigeria, an estimated 8.7 million people will face the food crisis in 16 northern states and the federal capital Abuja. In South Sudan, a total of 6.48 million people (about 55.4% of the population) are expected to face a food crisis, of which 1.7 million are expected to be in food emergency.
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 22 million people are now in severe food insecurity, the highest number ever recorded for a single country, according to WFP and FAO.
The report also found immediate action is needed to avoid a major food crisis within three to six months.
Borgia Kobri
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