Poor communities around the world are sending a clear, urgent and repeated message: \u201cHunger may kill us before coronavirus\u201d. Combined with ongoing conflicts, spiraling inequality, and an escalating climate crisis, the pandemic has shaken an already broken food system to its foundations, leaving millions on the brink of starvation.<\/p>\n
If we don\u2019t act now,\u00a0up to 12,000 people per day<\/strong>\u00a0could die from hunger<\/strong>\u00a0linked to the social and economic impacts of the pandemic\u00a0<\/strong>before the end of the year, perhaps more than will die each day from the disease. In the past months, we\u2019ve taken extraordinary measures to try and bring the number of Covid-19 cases to zero. Now, we need a similar massive effort to reduce hunger to zero.<\/strong><\/p>\n In our deeply unequal world, millions of people are living in, and dying from, hunger every year. In 2019,\u00a0821 million people<\/strong> were estimated to be food insecure, of which approximately 149 million suffered crisis level hunger or worse. This crisis is not about a lack of food. These devastating hunger levels are a symptom of a\u00a0broken food system<\/strong>\u00a0that has allowed millions of people to go hungry on a planet that produces more than enough food for everyone.<\/p>\n The coronavirus pandemic has added fuel to the fire of this growing hunger crisis.<\/strong>\u00a0It has exacerbated existing inequalities and vulnerabilities while pushing millions of people into food insecurity as a result of spiraling unemployment and the economic disruption caused by the disease.<\/p>\n We have identified 10 countries and regions where the food crisis is most severe and getting worse because of the pandemic: Yemen, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Afghanistan, Venezuela, the West African Sahel, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria and Haiti. Together they account\u00a0for 65 percent of people facing crisis level hunger globally.\u00a0<\/strong>But new hunger hotspots are also emerging. Middle-income countries such as India, South Africa, and Brazil are experiencing rapidly rising levels of hunger.<\/p>\n The UN has warned of\u00a0famines of ‘biblical proportions\u2019<\/strong>\u00a0as a result of Covid-19 and the measures to contain it, projecting the number of people in crisis level hunger will rise to\u00a0270 million<\/strong> before the end of the year, an 82% increase since 2019.\u00a0More people could die of coronavirus-driven hunger than from the virus itself. <\/strong>Since the pandemic started, Oxfam has reached 4.5 million of the world\u2019s most vulnerable people with food and clean water, working together with over 344 partners across 62 countries. You can help us do more.<\/p>\n Oxfam International : 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Poor communities around the world are sending a clear, urgent and repeated message: \u201cHunger may kill us before coronavirus\u201d. Combined with ongoing conflicts, spiraling inequality, and an escalating climate crisis, the pandemic has shaken an already broken food system to its foundations, leaving millions on the brink of starvation. If we don\u2019t act now,\u00a0up to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-development-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rise-global.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rise-global.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rise-global.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rise-global.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rise-global.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rise-global.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1139,"href":"https:\/\/rise-global.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions\/1139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rise-global.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rise-global.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rise-global.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rise-global.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fueling hunger in an already hungry world<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n
Extreme hunger hotspots<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n
Urgent action is needed now<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n