UN / ZIMBABWE FOOD CRISIS

The Government of Zimbabwe and aid organizations launched a revised Humanitarian Response Plan seeking $331 million to help 3.7 million people through the end of next April in Zimbabwe. UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:04
• Production Date: 7 August 2019
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: STEPHANE DUJARRIC
• Corporate Name: WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME - WFP
• Subject Topical: FOOD SECURITY
• Geographic Subject: ZIMBABWE
• MAMS Id: 2430529
• Parent Id: 2430529
• Alternate Title: unifeed190807c

Description

STORY: UN / ZIMBABWE FOOD CRISIS
TRT: 01:04
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 07 AUGUST 2019, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

Shotlist

FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters

07 AUGUST 2019, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, Stéphane Dujarric at the podium
3. Wide shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General:
“Our humanitarian colleagues, the Government of Zimbabwe and aid organizations today launched a revised Humanitarian Response Plan seeking $331 million to help 3.7 million people through the end of next April in Zimbabwe. The country is facing many humanitarian challenges stemming from climate change and economic shocks. Food insecurity has worsened following the droughts of 2018 and 2019 and continuing macroeconomic challenges. Some 5.5 million people in rural areas and 2.2 million people in urban areas of Zimbabwe are believed to be food insecure. For its part, the World Food Programme is stepping up its assistance by providing food aid and also building the capacity of chronically hungry communities to withstand climate shocks.”
5. Med shot, journalists
6. Wide shot, Dujarric walks away

Storyline

The Government of Zimbabwe and aid organizations today (7 Aug) launched a revised Humanitarian Response Plan seeking $331 million to help 3.7 million people through the end of next April in Zimbabwe.

The spokesperson for the Secretary-General, Stéphane Dujarric, told journalists at UN Headquarters that “the country is facing many humanitarian challenges stemming from climate change and economic shocks” and “food insecurity has worsened following the droughts of 2018 and 2019 and continuing macroeconomic challenges.”

Dujarric said “some 5.5 million people in rural areas and 2.2 million people in urban areas of Zimbabwe are believed to be food insecure.”

For its part, he said, the World Food Programme (WFP) “is stepping up its assistance by providing food aid and also building the capacity of chronically hungry communities to withstand climate shocks.”

Cyclone Idai in March caused major damage in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi, killing over 1,200 people.