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FAO / FOOD CRISES REPORT
STORY: FAO / FOOD CRISES REPORT
TRT: 02:51
SOURCE: FAO
RESTRICTION: PLEASE CREDIT WFP FILE FOOTAGE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: MARCH 2018, ROME, ITALY / FILE
FILE – WFP – JANUARY 2016, EAST ALEPPO, SYRIA
1. Various shots, bombed buildings
2. Wide shot, girl clearing rubble from her home
3. Wide shot, people in line for food distribution
4. Med shot, food distribution
MARCH 2018, FAO HEADQUARTERS, ROME, ITALY
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dominique Burgeon, Director of Emergency and Rehabilitation Division, Strategic Programme Leader, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):
“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.”
FILE – WFP- JULY 2017, HODEIDAH, YEMEN
6. Wide shot, war damaged building
7. Various shots, woman cooking bread and family eating
FILE – WFP – MAY 2016, SOMALIA
8. Various shots, dry land in Somalia
9. Med shot, dead cattle
10. Close up, cattle grazing in dry field
MARCH 2018, FAO HEADQUARTERS, ROME, ITALY
SOUNDBITE (English) Dominique Burgeon, Director of Emergency and Rehabilitation Division, Strategic Programme Leader, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):
“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.”
FILE – WFP JANUARY 2017, SOUTH SUDAN
11. Wide shot, fishermen using fishing kits provided by FAO
12. Wide shot, fishermen at the market
13. Wide shot, fish smoking activity
MARCH 2018, FAO HEADQUARTERS, ROME, ITALY
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Dominique Burgeon, Director of Emergency and Rehabilitation Division, Strategic Programme Leader, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):
“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.”
FILE – WFP – OCTOBER 2017, BORDER BANGLADESH WITH MYANMAR
15. Wide shot, displaced people at the Anjuman Para Border Bangladesh with Myanmar
16. Various shots, energy biscuits and rice being distributed by WFP
17. Med shot, man feeding a child
FILE – WFP – MAY 2017, ADAMAWA STATE, NIGERIA
18. Wide shot, people in line in Madagali Local Government Area
19. Various shots, women and men being registered into the WFP SCOPE - a smartphone based platform called SCOPE where all beneficiary data is kept
Around 124 million people in 51 countries face food insecurity or worse, and require urgent humanitarian action to save lives, protect livelihoods, and reduce hunger and malnutrition, according to a new Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report.
SOUNDBITE (English) Dominique Burgeon, Director of Emergency and Rehabilitation Division, Strategic Programme Leader, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):
“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.”
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.
SOUNDBITE (English) Dominique Burgeon, Director of Emergency and Rehabilitation Division, Strategic Programme Leader, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):
“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.”
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.
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.
SOUNDBITE (English) Dominique Burgeon, Director of Emergency and Rehabilitation Division, Strategic Programme Leader, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):
“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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