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Global Report on Food Crises 2018: Acute hunger and malnutrition continue to spike

Around 124 million people in 51 countries face Crisis food insecurity or worse. They require urgent humanitarian action to save lives, protect livelihoods, and reduce hunger and malnutrition. The worst food crises in 2017 were in north-eastern Nigeria, Somalia, Yemen and South Sudan, where nearly 32 million people were food-insecure and in need of urgent assistance.

Country Various Countries - see shotlist

Duration 8m21s

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Video Type Video News Release (VNR)

Date 03/21/2018 4:26 PM

File size 916.97 MB

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Shotlist LOCATIONS: Syria, Nigeria, Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia, Myanmar, DRC; FAO HD, Rome, Italy

SOUND: Natural, English

DATE: Jan 2018/ April 2017 / May 2017 / July 2017 / August 2017 / October 2017 / Jan 2017/ Jan 2016

TRT: 8’21”

SOURCE: WFP/FAO

ACCESS: ALL

1. GV of Bombed buildings in East Aleppo (WFP, Jan 2016)

2. Detail of bombed building

3. Girl clearing rubble from her home

4. People in line for food distribution

5. Detail of food distribution

6. Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) airplane (WFP, August 2017)

7. WFP food pallets going out from the back of the airplane

8. Parachutes opening

9. SARC staff on the ground collecting the food

10. War damaged building in Hodeidah, Yemen (WFP, July 2017)

11. Lady cooking bread, family eating

12. People in line in Madagali Local Government Area, Adamawa State, Nigeria (WFP, May 2017)

13. Various of women and men being registered into the WFP SCOPE - a smartphone based platform called SCOPE where all beneficiary data is kept

14. Various of people displaced by fighting on the road with their belongings in Kananga, Kasai region, DRC (WFP, August 2017)

15. GV of displaced people at the Anjuman Para Border Bangladesh with Myanmar (WFP, October 2017)

16. Various of energy biscuits and rice being distributed by WFP

17. Man feeding a child

18. Wide shots of dry land in Somalia (FAO, May 2016)

19. Various of beneficiaries of FAO Cash-for-work project working in the field

20. Detail of dead cattle

21. Cattle grazing in dry field

22. Pan of landscape with bee keeper in Malola, Syria (FAO, January 2018)

23. Various of beneficiaries of FAO bee keeping project at work

24. Various of beehives

25. WS of site of FAO irrigation project in Homs, Syria (FAO, January 2018)

26. Various of irrigation canal

27. Beneficiary of irrigation project working in the field with his wife

28. Beneficiary of irrigation project at home eating with his family

29. Details of woman and girl

30. FAO staff

31. FAO staff talking to beneficiaries of Dairy project in Yemen (FAO, April 2017

32. Man putting Feed Blocks in a rope in farm - livestock

33. Cow licking Feed Blocks in farm - livestock

34. Beneficiaries of FAO dairy project in action

35. Children drinking milk

36. Details of dairy equipment

37. Fishermen using fishing kits provided by FAO in South Sudan (FAO, January 2017)

38. Various of fishermen on water reservoir preparing nets and fishing

39. Various of fish smoking activity

40. SOTs Dominique Burgeon, FAO Director of Emergency and Rehabiliation Division, Strategic Programme Leader – Resilience (English) (Fao HQ, Rome, March 2018):

1. In 2017, there were 124 million people in 51 countries, who were in acute food insecurity.

2. Out of 124 million people in acute food insecurity, 74 million were living in 18 countries where conflicts have had a devastated impact. This is about 60 percent of the total number of people in food insecurity. Beside conflicts, natural disasters, climate extreme events such a droughts, for example, also have had a tremendous impact on people’s lives and livelihoods, and food security, as we have seen, for example, in Southern Africa and in the Horn of Africa, were drought indeed has devastated the livelihoods of people, has been devastating their crops, has been massively killing animal among pastoralist communities.

3. It’s also important to realize that for many of these people, when they cannot… when as last resort, they realize that they don’t have access to agriculture inputs, to markets… often the solution of last resort, but really the solution of last resort, is for them to move, within the country, to become Internally Displaced People, or for some, across border, when they become refugees and migrants.

4. The report, such as the Global Report on Food Crises, is telling us that providing humanitarian assistance is absolutely needed, but is not sufficient. What we need to do, even in the midst of conflict situations, we need to work at the root causes of the situation. We need to work with the development actors, to make sure that the required investments are being made to build people’s resilience, to build people’s capacity to cope. Unless we do that, we’ll see the number of people in crises and in emergency phases in terms of food security, keep increasing.

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Script Around 124 million people in 51 countries face Crisis food insecurity or worse. They require urgent humanitarian action to save lives, protect livelihoods, and reduce hunger and malnutrition. The worst food crises in 2017 were in north-eastern Nigeria, Somalia, Yemen and South Sudan, where nearly 32 million people were food-insecure and in need of urgent assistance. Famine was declared in two counties of South Sudan in February 2017. Although humanitarian assistance has thus far contributed towards preventing large-scale famines, humanitarian needs remain exceptionally high across the four countries. Last year’s Global Report on Food Crises identified 108 million people in Crisis food security or worse across 48 countries. A comparison of the 45 countries included in both editions of the Global Report on Food Crises reveals an increase of 11 million people – an 11 percent rise – in the number of food-insecure people needing urgent humanitarian action across the world. This rise can largely be attributed to new or intensified and protracted conflict or insecurity in countries such as Yemen, northern Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan and Myanmar. Persistent drought has also played a major role, causing consecutive poor harvests in countries already facing high levels of food insecurity in eastern and southern Africa. Levels of acute malnutrition in crisis-affected areas remain of concern; there continues to be a double burden of high acute and chronic malnutrition in protracted crises. The number of children and women in need of nutritional support increased between 2016 and 2017, mainly in areas affected by conflict or insecurity such as Somalia, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Yemen and northern Nigeria. Some of these countries have also experienced severe outbreaks of cholera, exacerbating levels of acute malnutrition. Conflict and insecurity continued to be the primary drivers of food insecurity in 18 countries, where almost 74 million food-insecure people remain in need of urgent assistance. Half of these people were in countries affected by conflict or insecurity in Africa, and more than a third were in the Middle East. Food-insecure people in need of urgent action in countries affected by conflict or insecurity accounted for 60 percent of the total population facing Crisis food insecurity or worse across the world. Climate disasters – mainly drought – were also major triggers of food crises in 23 countries, with over 39 million food-insecure people in need of urgent assistance. Two-thirds of these countries were in Africa, where almost 32 million people faced acute food insecurity caused by climate shocks.

The main drivers of food insecurity – conflict, displacement and climate shocks – along with outbreaks of diseases and limited access to basic health, drinking water and sanitation services have created a bleak malnutrition situation in many countries. Food insecurity: short-term outlook for 2018. Conflict and insecurity will likely remain major drivers of food security crises in 2018, affecting Afghanistan, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, north-east Nigeria and the Lake Chad region, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen as well as Libya and the central Sahel (Mali and Niger). Yemen will continue to be the largest food crisis by far. The situation is expected to deteriorate, particularly because of restricted access, economic collapse and outbreaks of disease. The impact of severe dry weather on crop and livestock production is likely to heighten food insecurity in pastoral areas of Somalia, southeastern Ethiopia and eastern Kenya, and in the Sahel in Senegal, Chad, Niger, Mali, Mauritania and Burkina Faso. In southern Africa, the situation is forecast to be better than in 2016/17 thanks to bumper cereal production in 2017 and falling food prices. But vulnerable people need support to build their resilience to future climate shocks so they can recover more quickly. The report identified the critical need for agencies to work together to improve the reliability of data, which need to be readily available to all parties. No significant improvement in food security can be expected globally until peace is achieved and livelihoods restored. Food security, nutrition and livelihoods-based interventions will be vital to save lives, build resilience and contribute to sustaining peace.

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