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The number of people experiencing acute food insecurity and requiring urgent food and livelihood assistance increased for the fourth consecutive year in 2022, with over a quarter of a billion facing acute hunger and with people in seven countries on the brink of starvation and death, says the latest report on acute hunger released today (3 May).

According to the Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC), around 258 million people in 58 countries and territories faced acute food insecurity at crisis or worse levels in 2022, up from 193 million in 53 countries in the previous year. This is the highest number ever recorded since the report was first published in 2017.

Country Various Countries - see shotlist

Duration 4m35s

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Video Type Video News Release (VNR)

Date 05/02/2023 3:25 PM

File size 604.90 MB

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Shotlist "STORY: FAO / GLOBAL REPORT ON FOOD CRISES

TRT: 4‚Äô:35‚Äô‚Äô

SOURCE: FAO

RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT FAO ON SCREEN

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: FAO HEADQUARTERS, ROME, ITALY, 27 APRIL 2023 / RECENT

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SHOTLIST:

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15 JULY 2022, DOLOW, SOMALIA

Wide shot, internally displaced people walking

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2018, HAITI

2. ¬† ¬† Wide shot, seeds distributions

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15 NOVEMBER 2021, SAFAR KHAN VILLAGE, ZENDAJAN DISTRICT, HERAT PROVINCE

3. ¬† ¬† Med shot, young farmer rolling flat the land with oxes

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2017, TEREREKA COUNTY, SOUTH SUDAN

4. ¬† ¬† Wide shot, fisherfolk fishing

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MARCH 2020, IBB GOVERNORATE, YEMEN

5. ¬† ¬† Med shot, farmers at work

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JULY 2016, ETHIOPIA¬†

6. ¬† ¬† Pan right, undernourished cattle on a country road

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FILE ‚Äì ROME, ITALY

7. ¬† ¬† Wide shot, FAO Headquarters

8. ¬† ¬† Zoom in, FAO flag

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27 APRIL 2023, ROME, ITALY

9. ¬† ¬† SOUNDBITE (English) Rein Paulsen, Director of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Office of Emergencies and Resilience: ""The latest figures on the global acute food insecurity situation paint a very concerning picture.""

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JULY 2017, KASAI PROVINCE, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO

10. ¬†Wide shot, farmer at work

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27 APRIL 2023, ROME, ITALY

11. ¬†SOUNDBITE (English) Rein Paulsen, Director of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Office of Emergencies and Resilience: ""And in 2022, this means that over a quarter of a billion people, 258 million people, were in a situation of acute food insecurity.""

27 OCTOBER 2022, CHERNIHIVSKA OBLAST, UKRAINE

12. ¬†Zoom out, destroyed roof

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2021, MAURITANIA

13. ¬†Close-up, man tapping dry ground

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MAY 2022, SUNAMGANJ DISTRICT, BANGLADESH

14. ¬†Wide shot, rain falling on a river

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27 APRIL 2023, ROME, ITALY

15. ¬†SOUNDBITE (English) Rein Paulsen, Director of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Office of Emergencies and Resilience: ""What we see is that even in situations characterized by conflict and violence, it's really this interplay of issues and overlapping of the impacts of violence on top of economic challenges, not least driven by sort of the ripple effects from the COVID-19 pandemic that the world has been feeling. And then, of course, climate challenges, the climate crisis and everything that that means in terms of extreme weather events; whether that's extreme temperatures, whether that's issues related to water scarcity, to droughts, or whether that's issues even related to flooding ‚Äì excess of water in certain places.""

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4 NOVEMBER 2022, VOLYNSKA OBLAST, UKRAINE

16. ¬†Med shot, machines loading sleeves with grain

17. ¬†Close up, grain

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30 APRIL 2022, DNIPROPETROVSKA OBLAST, UKRAINE

18. ¬†Wide shot, farmers taking sacks of potato seed kits from a truck

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27 APRIL 2023, ROME, ITALY

19. ¬†SOUNDBITE (English) Rein Paulsen, Director of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Office of Emergencies and Resilience: ""Given that Ukraine and also the Russian Federation play such a significant role in terms of global food systems when it comes to the production of a series of key food commodities or the production of key agricultural inputs such as fertilizers, any limitations or inability to produce or export impacts prices globally, has impacted prices globally. For us, there are a series of countries included in this report who are import-dependent low-income countries. And so obviously, as prices have changed, prices have increased, those countries have been adversely affected.""

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MAY 2022, SUNAMGANJ DISTRICT, BANGLADESH

20. ¬†Med shot, FAO staff talking with farmers

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MARCH 2022, KANDAHAR CITY, AFGHANISTAN

21. ¬†Med shot, distribution of animal feed to vulnerable herders and livestock owners

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JULY 2018 GAZIANTEP PROVINCE, TURKEY

22. ¬†Med shot, FAO expert showing Syrian refugee farm workers how to prune olive tree

23. ¬†SOUNDBITE (English) Rein Paulsen, Director of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Office of Emergencies and Resilience: ""We have evidence through years and decades of interventions of what is needed at the household-level to prevent famine. What is needed at the household-level in order to address acute food insecurity, such as is documented by this report. But it needs to be scaled and it needs to be funded. And time-sensitive agricultural interventions are proven to be the most cost-effective way to respond to acute food insecurity for the vast majority of the people that are covered by this report.""

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2017 MABAN, SOUTH SUDAN

24. ¬†Wide shot, seed distribution

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AUGUST 2021, YEMEN

25. ¬†Med shot, goat receiving its vaccination

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27 APRIL 2023, ROME, ITALY

26. ¬†SOUNDBITE (English) Rein Paulsen, Director of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Office of Emergencies and Resilience: ""The challenge that we have is the disequilibrium, the mismatch that exists between the amount of funding money that's given, what that funding is spent on, and the types of interventions that are required to make a change. So globally, we know that only 4 percent of all of the funding that goes to food security interventions in food crises contexts, in the contexts that are covered by this report, only 4 percent goes to time sensitive agricultural interventions. That's something that needs to change if we really want to move the needle on the worsening trend in these numbers that exist.""

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APRIL 2017, TEREKEKA COUNTY, SOUTH SUDAN

27. ¬†Med shot, distribution of fishing kits

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1 SEPTEMBER 2020 GAIBANDHA DISTRICT, BANGLADESH

28. ¬†Wide shot, FAO staff talking with a farmer

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18 JULY 2017, AL GHEZLANEYE, SYRIA

29. ¬†Med shot, farmer feeding a sheep after parasite control

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8 NOVEMBER 2021, DAMAN DISTRICT, KANDAHAR PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN

30. ¬†Wide shot, aid workers in a warehouse preparing wheat seeds bags for distribution

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JULY 2017, KASAI PROVINCE, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO

31. ¬†Wide shot of farmers working in the fields"

Script "The number of people experiencing acute food insecurity and requiring urgent food and livelihood assistance increased for the fourth consecutive year in 2022, with over a quarter of a billion facing acute hunger and with people in seven countries on the brink of starvation and death, says the latest report on acute hunger released today (3 May).

According to the Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC), around 258 million people in 58 countries and territories faced acute food insecurity at crisis or worse levels in 2022, up from 193 million in 53 countries in the previous year. This is the highest number ever recorded since the report was first published in 2017.

Much of this growth reflects an increase in the population analysed. However, the severity of acute food insecurity increased from 21.3% in 2021 to 22.7% in 2022, remaining unacceptably high and highlighting a concerning trend of a deterioration in the global acute food insecurity.

SOUNDBITE (English) Rein Paulsen, Director of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Office of Emergencies and Resilience: ""The latest figures on the global acute food insecurity situation paint a very concerning picture.""

The Report reveals that people in seven countries faced starvation and destitution during 2022. More than half of those were in Somalia (57 percent). Such extreme circumstances also affected populations in Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Haiti, Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen.

SOUNDBITE (English) Rein Paulsen, Director of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Office of Emergencies and Resilience: ""And in 2022, this means that over a quarter of a billion people, 258 million people, were in a situation of acute food insecurity.""¬†

While conflicts and extreme climate and weather events continue to drive acute food insecurity, economic shocks, including the socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 and the consequences of the war in Ukraine, became the main driver of hunger in several major food crisis contexts last year, particularly in the world‚Äôs poorest countries. The global shocks left these countries vulnerable to additional stressors and with limited fiscal ability to mitigate new risks, such as the global food price shocks and market fluctuations.¬†

SOUNDBITE (English) Rein Paulsen, Director of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Office of Emergencies and Resilience: ""What we see is that even in situations characterized by conflict and violence, it's really this interplay of issues and overlapping of the impacts of violence on top of economic challenges, not least driven by sort of the ripple effects from the COVID-19 pandemic that the world has been feeling. And then, of course, climate challenges, the climate crisis and everything that that means in terms of extreme weather events; whether that's extreme temperatures, whether that's issues related to water scarcity, to droughts, or whether that's issues even related to flooding ‚Äì excess of water in certain places.""

The report findings suggest that the impact of the war in Ukraine has had an adverse impact on global food systems due to the major contributions of both Ukraine and Russia to the global production and trade of fuel, agricultural inputs and essential food commodities, particularly wheat, maize and sunflower oil.

SOUNDBITE (English) Rein Paulsen, Director of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Office of Emergencies and Resilience: ""Given that Ukraine and also the Russian Federation play such a significant role in terms of global food systems when it comes to the production of a series of key food commodities or the production of key agricultural inputs such as fertilizers, any limitations or inability to produce or export impacts prices globally, has impacted prices globally. For us, there are a series of countries included in this report who are import-dependent low-income countries. And so obviously, as prices have changed, prices have increased, those countries have been adversely affected.""

The international community calls for a paradigm shift towards better prevention, anticipation and targeting to address the root causes of food crises, rather than responding to their impacts when they occur.¬†

SOUNDBITE (English) Rein Paulsen, Director of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Office of Emergencies and Resilience: ""We have evidence through years and decades of interventions of what is needed at the household-level to prevent famine. What is needed at the household-level in order to address acute food insecurity, such as is documented by this report. But it needs to be scaled and it needs to be funded. And time-sensitive agricultural interventions are proven to be the most cost-effective way to respond to acute food insecurity for the vast majority of the people that are covered by this report.""

The report warns that there is no indication that the drivers of hunger will ease in 2023 and highlights the utmost importance of scaling up core investments to tackle the root causes of food crises and transform agrifood systems towards more sustainable outcomes, including nature-based solutions, inclusive access to food and better risk mitigation.

SOUNDBITE (English) Rein Paulsen, Director of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Office of Emergencies and Resilience: ""The challenge that we have is the disequilibrium, the mismatch that exists between the amount of funding money that's given, what that funding is spent on, and the types of interventions that are required to make a change. So globally, we know that only 4 percent of all of the funding that goes to food security interventions in food crises contexts, in the contexts that are covered by this report, only 4 percent goes to time sensitive agricultural interventions. That's something that needs to change if we really want to move the needle on the worsening trend in these numbers that exist.""

Founded by the European Union, FAO and WFP in 2016, the Global Network Against Food Crises is an alliance of humanitarian and development actors working together to prevent, prepare for and respond to food crises and support the Sustainable Development Goal to End Hunger (SDG 2). The Global Report on Food Crises is the flagship publication of the Global Network and is facilitated by the Food Security Information Network (FSIN).¬†

Acute food insecurity is when a person's inability to consume adequate food puts their lives or livelihoods in immediate danger. It draws on internationally accepted measures of acute hunger, such as the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) and the Cadre Harmonis√© (CH). It is not the same as chronic hunger, as reported on each year by the UN's annual State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report. Chronic hunger is when a person is unable to consume enough food over an extended period to maintain a normal, active lifestyle."

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