Millions Of Afghans Are Threatened With Food Insecurity
The problem of food eccentricity is starting to get angry in a number of countries, including Afghanistan. The latest report states that 14.2 million people in the country are predicted to face acute food insecurity.
This was revealed by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Friday, May 31 yesterday. The organization's latest Integrated Food Safety Phase (IPC) Classification report for the March-April 2024 period showed a "sustainable positive trend" with 14.2 million people, or 37 percent of Afghanistan's population, is expected to face acute food industries, FAO representatives in Switzerland Richard Trenchard told reporters in Geneva.
This number marks a dramatic decline since early 2022, when nearly 23 million people, or about 55 percent of the total population, face acute food insecurity, a category known as IPC3+, Trenchard said.
"This is an unprecedented scale and rate of decline in history," he said as quoted by ANTARA.
The decline is proof of the resilience of Afghan farmers and people, improvement of climate conditions, increasing economic stabilization of the country, and a "very large" level of humanitarian and non-humanitarian aid, he said.
However, he warned that it did not change the fact that Afghanistan "has remained one of the countries with the largest food eccentricity crisis in the world in terms of absolute value."
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"And more than two million people are still facing an emergency rate of food insecurity, IPC4," he said, warning that the food security situation was still "very fragile," particularly because of the possibility of climate shocks and other shocks, as well as being caused by economic fragility.
"It remains very important to continue investing in humanitarian food assistance and emergency agricultural assistance to maintain this downward trend," he added.