The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization has said raising the bar for the fight against famine, poverty, and wellness of some of the world’s most food-insecure people would cost 1.1 billion dollars.
According to the organization, it intends to influence strengthening the capacity and resilience of communities to prepare for and cope with crises as well as providing post-disaster livelihoods support to help people resume production.
To do this, FAO requires $1.1 billion as indicated in a recent report published on its webpage titled; FAO in the 2021 humanitarian appeals.
The FAO also indicated that the levels of acute hunger rose steadily throughout 2020, with about 135 million people experiencing a crisis or worse levels of acute food insecurity in 2020 alone.
“The Coronavirus pandemic has further exacerbated pre-existing Vulnerability due to intensifying conflict, historic flooding in some areas, an unprecedented desert locust upsurge and economic crisis, with or without famine declarations some people are already dying of hunger.
“The shocks of the past year will reverberate long into 2021 and beyond and we need to urgently scale-up action to avert a worst-case scenario,” director of FAO’s emergencies and resilience division.
“Of extreme concerns are the estimated 30 million people in Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Phase 4 or emergency levels of acute hunger who are already experiencing excess mortality and the irreversible loss of vital livelihood assets.
“We will continue investing in the most vulnerable people and their livelihoods so that they can lead their future recovery and pull themselves out of acute hunger,” The report said.
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