FAO / GLOBAL REPORT FOOD CRISES
02-May-2023
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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 Wednesday. FAO
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STORY: FAO / GLOBAL REPORT ON FOOD CRISES
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: PLEASE CHECK SHOTLIST FOR DETAILS
SHOTLIST
15 JULY 2022, DOLOW, SOMALIA
1. Wide shot, internally displaced people walking
2018, HAITI
2. Wide shot, seeds distributions
15 NOVEMBER 2021, SAFAR KHAN VILLAGE, ZENDAJAN DISTRICT, HERAT PROVINCE
3. Med shot, young farmer rolling flat the land with oxes
2017, TEREREKA COUNTY, SOUTH SUDAN
4. Wide shot, fisherfolk fishing
MARCH 2020, IBB GOVERNORATE, YEMEN
5. Med shot, farmers at work
JULY 2016, ETHIOPIA
6. Pan right, undernourished cattle on a country road
FILE – ROME, ITALY
7. Wide shot, FAO Headquarters
8. Zoom in, FAO flag
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."
JULY 2017, KASAI PROVINCE, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
10. Wide shot, farmer at work
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
2021, MAURITANIA
13. Close-up, man tapping dry ground
MAY 2022, SUNAMGANJ DISTRICT, BANGLADESH
14. Wide shot, rain falling on a river
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 – excess of water in certain places."
4 NOVEMBER 2022, VOLYNSKA OBLAST, UKRAINE
16. Med shot, machines loading sleeves with grain
17. Close up, grain
30 APRIL 2022, DNIPROPETROVSKA OBLAST, UKRAINE
18. Wide shot, farmers taking sacks of potato seed kits from a truck
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."
MAY 2022, SUNAMGANJ DISTRICT, BANGLADESH
20. Med shot, FAO staff talking with farmers
MARCH 2022, KANDAHAR CITY, AFGHANISTAN
21. Med shot, distribution of animal feed to vulnerable herders and livestock owners
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."
2017 MABAN, SOUTH SUDAN
24. Wide shot, seed distribution
AUGUST 2021, YEMEN
25. Med shot, goat receiving its vaccination
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."
APRIL 2017, TEREKEKA COUNTY, SOUTH SUDAN
27. Med shot, distribution of fishing kits
1 SEPTEMBER 2020 GAIBANDHA DISTRICT, BANGLADESH
28. Wide shot, FAO staff talking with a farmer
18 JULY 2017, AL GHEZLANEYE, SYRIA
29. Med shot, farmer feeding a sheep after parasite control
8 NOVEMBER 2021, DAMAN DISTRICT, KANDAHAR PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN
30. Wide shot, aid workers in a warehouse preparing wheat seeds bags for distribution
JULY 2017, KASAI PROVINCE, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
31. Wide shot of farmers working in the fields
1. Wide shot, internally displaced people walking
2018, HAITI
2. Wide shot, seeds distributions
15 NOVEMBER 2021, SAFAR KHAN VILLAGE, ZENDAJAN DISTRICT, HERAT PROVINCE
3. Med shot, young farmer rolling flat the land with oxes
2017, TEREREKA COUNTY, SOUTH SUDAN
4. Wide shot, fisherfolk fishing
MARCH 2020, IBB GOVERNORATE, YEMEN
5. Med shot, farmers at work
JULY 2016, ETHIOPIA
6. Pan right, undernourished cattle on a country road
FILE – ROME, ITALY
7. Wide shot, FAO Headquarters
8. Zoom in, FAO flag
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."
JULY 2017, KASAI PROVINCE, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
10. Wide shot, farmer at work
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
2021, MAURITANIA
13. Close-up, man tapping dry ground
MAY 2022, SUNAMGANJ DISTRICT, BANGLADESH
14. Wide shot, rain falling on a river
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 – excess of water in certain places."
4 NOVEMBER 2022, VOLYNSKA OBLAST, UKRAINE
16. Med shot, machines loading sleeves with grain
17. Close up, grain
30 APRIL 2022, DNIPROPETROVSKA OBLAST, UKRAINE
18. Wide shot, farmers taking sacks of potato seed kits from a truck
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."
MAY 2022, SUNAMGANJ DISTRICT, BANGLADESH
20. Med shot, FAO staff talking with farmers
MARCH 2022, KANDAHAR CITY, AFGHANISTAN
21. Med shot, distribution of animal feed to vulnerable herders and livestock owners
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."
2017 MABAN, SOUTH SUDAN
24. Wide shot, seed distribution
AUGUST 2021, YEMEN
25. Med shot, goat receiving its vaccination
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."
APRIL 2017, TEREKEKA COUNTY, SOUTH SUDAN
27. Med shot, distribution of fishing kits
1 SEPTEMBER 2020 GAIBANDHA DISTRICT, BANGLADESH
28. Wide shot, FAO staff talking with a farmer
18 JULY 2017, AL GHEZLANEYE, SYRIA
29. Med shot, farmer feeding a sheep after parasite control
8 NOVEMBER 2021, DAMAN DISTRICT, KANDAHAR PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN
30. Wide shot, aid workers in a warehouse preparing wheat seeds bags for distribution
JULY 2017, KASAI PROVINCE, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
31. Wide shot of farmers working in the fields
STORYLINE
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’s 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 – 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."
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’s 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 – 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."
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