Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
That means at least 117 million people won’t get food or other assistance in 2025. The U.N. also will end 2024 having raised about 46% of the $49.6 billion it sought for humanitarian aid across ...
Carl Skau, deputy executive director of the World Food Program, told a news conference that at least 38 of the 86 countries where WFP operates have already seen cuts or plan to cut assistance soon ...
The agreement, which came into force in July of last year, was created to alleviate the worsening global food crisis, which had been exacerbated by the war in Ukraine.
The head of the World Food Programme, David Beasley, warned in March that the war in Ukraine could take the global food crisis to "levels beyond anything we've seen before". [ 121 ] A potential disruption to global wheat supplies could exacerbate the ongoing hunger crisis in Yemen , [ 122 ] Afghanistan [ 123 ] [ 124 ] and East Africa . [ 125 ]
The major IFPRI ( International Food Policy Research Institute) Report launched in February 2011 stated that the causes of the 2008 global food crisis were similar to that of the 1972–1974 food crisis, in that the 1970s energy crisis was the major driver, as well as the shock to cereal demand (from biofuels this time), low interest rates ...
War and climate change. The ongoing Russia-Ukraine war is exacerbating the food crisis. Ukraine and Russia collectively account for 30% of globally traded wheat, 20% of maize, and 70% of sunflower ...
In April 2011, the World Bank warned that the global economy was "one shock away" from an impending full-scale food price crisis. [2] The high food prices have contributed to worldwide protests particularly in Africa. [3] High food prices were also a major factor contributing to the Arab Spring unrest. [4] The deflated FAO food price index ...
The United Nations chief warned Tuesday that climate chaos and food crises are increasing threats to global peace, telling a high-level U.N. meeting that climate disasters imperil food production ...