UN / GLOBAL FOOD CRISES
03-May-2023
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The Global Report on Food Crises 2023 estimates that over a quarter of a billion people were acutely food-insecure and required urgent food assistance in 58 food-crisis countries and territories in 2022. This is the highest number in the seven-year history of the GRFC, the report says. UNIFEED
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STORY: UN / GLOBAL FOOD CRISES
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LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 3 MAY 2023, NEW YORK CITY
TRT: 02:48
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 3 MAY 2023, NEW YORK CITY
SHOTLIST
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
2. Wide shot, press briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Máximo Torero, Chief Economist, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):
“Now, the populations are facing high levels of acute food insecurity, not only in magnitude but also in prevalence. If we will look at the 10 largest food crisis countries in terms of magnitude. The first one will be DRC. The second one would be Ethiopia, then Afghanistan, Nigeria, Yemen, Myanmar, Syria Arab Republic, Sudan, Ukraine and Pakistan.”
4. Wide shot, press briefing room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Máximo Torero, Chief Economist, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):
“Now what is the global overview in terms of displacement? 53.2 million were internally displaced in 25 food-crisis countries and 19.7 million were refugees and asylum seekers in 55 food-crisis countries. The global overview of malnutrition shows that areas with high levels of acute food insecurity tend to have high level of child wasting.”
6. Wide shot, press briefing room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Máximo Torero, Chief Economist, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):
“If we look at the drivers, the primary drivers of acute food insecurity in these countries were conflicts, which was the main driver for people, but economic shocks in this opportunity, were the main drivers for more countries and these are the consequences for what happened with COVID-19 and which was accelerated by the war in Ukraine. The global food prices decreased since March 2022, as FAO has reported, but we have not seen the transmission of that decrease into domestic food prices, which still remain high.”
8. Close up, journalist speaking
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Arif Husain, Chief Economist of the World Food Programme (WFP):
“I will take you back to 2019 just before COVID when we had about 135 million people in 53 countries with IPC three or worse. Today 258 million people in IPC three in 58 countries so it is really comparable. So you just see that just from there food insecurity is almost doubled.”
10. Wide shot, press briefing room
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Arif Husain, Chief Economist of the World Food Programme (WFP):
“If you're a poor country, if you have high debt, if you have high food inflation, if you have high currency depreciation, and if you're dealing with high interest rates, and you happen to import your food, your fuel, or your fertilizer, you are in trouble. And you know, the unfortunate thing is that dozens of countries right now, they fit the criteria.”
12. Wide shot, press briefing room
2. Wide shot, press briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Máximo Torero, Chief Economist, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):
“Now, the populations are facing high levels of acute food insecurity, not only in magnitude but also in prevalence. If we will look at the 10 largest food crisis countries in terms of magnitude. The first one will be DRC. The second one would be Ethiopia, then Afghanistan, Nigeria, Yemen, Myanmar, Syria Arab Republic, Sudan, Ukraine and Pakistan.”
4. Wide shot, press briefing room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Máximo Torero, Chief Economist, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):
“Now what is the global overview in terms of displacement? 53.2 million were internally displaced in 25 food-crisis countries and 19.7 million were refugees and asylum seekers in 55 food-crisis countries. The global overview of malnutrition shows that areas with high levels of acute food insecurity tend to have high level of child wasting.”
6. Wide shot, press briefing room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Máximo Torero, Chief Economist, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):
“If we look at the drivers, the primary drivers of acute food insecurity in these countries were conflicts, which was the main driver for people, but economic shocks in this opportunity, were the main drivers for more countries and these are the consequences for what happened with COVID-19 and which was accelerated by the war in Ukraine. The global food prices decreased since March 2022, as FAO has reported, but we have not seen the transmission of that decrease into domestic food prices, which still remain high.”
8. Close up, journalist speaking
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Arif Husain, Chief Economist of the World Food Programme (WFP):
“I will take you back to 2019 just before COVID when we had about 135 million people in 53 countries with IPC three or worse. Today 258 million people in IPC three in 58 countries so it is really comparable. So you just see that just from there food insecurity is almost doubled.”
10. Wide shot, press briefing room
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Arif Husain, Chief Economist of the World Food Programme (WFP):
“If you're a poor country, if you have high debt, if you have high food inflation, if you have high currency depreciation, and if you're dealing with high interest rates, and you happen to import your food, your fuel, or your fertilizer, you are in trouble. And you know, the unfortunate thing is that dozens of countries right now, they fit the criteria.”
12. Wide shot, press briefing room
STORYLINE
The Global Report on Food Crises 2023 estimates that over a quarter of a billion people were acutely food-insecure and required urgent food assistance in 58 food-crisis countries and territories in 2022. This is the highest number in the seven-year history of the GRFC, the report says.
Briefing journalists today (03 May) in New York via video teleconference on the Global Report on Food Crises 2023, FAO’s Chief Economist Máximo Torero said, “Now, the populations are facing high levels of acute food insecurity, not only in magnitude but also in prevalence.”
He continued, “If we will look at the 10 largest food crisis countries in terms of magnitude. The first one will be DRC. The second one would be Ethiopia, then Afghanistan, Nigeria, Yemen, Myanmar, Syria Arab Republic, Sudan, Ukraine and Pakistan.”
Torero said, “Now what is the global overview in terms of displacement? 53.2 million were internally displaced in 25 food-crisis countries and 19.7 million were refugees and asylum seekers in 55 food-crisis countries.”
He added, “The global overview of malnutrition shows that areas with high levels of acute food insecurity tend to have high level of child wasting.”
Torero explained, “If we look at the drivers, the primary drivers of acute food insecurity in these countries were conflicts, which was the main driver for people, but economic shocks in this opportunity, were the main drivers for more countries and these are the consequences for what happened with COVID-19 and which was accelerated by the war in Ukraine.”
According to the Chief Economist, “The global food prices decreased since March 2022, as FAO has reported, but we have not seen the transmission of that decrease into domestic food prices, which still remain high.”
Also speaking to the journalists, the Chief Economist of the World Food Programme (WFP), Arif Husain, said, “I will take you back to 2019 just before COVID when we had about 135 million people in 53 countries with IPC three or worse. Today 258 million people in IPC three in 58 countries so it is really comparable. So you just see that just from there food insecurity is almost doubled.”
Husain concluded, “If you're a poor country, if you have high debt, if you have high food inflation, if you have high currency depreciation, and if you're dealing with high interest rates, and you happen to import your food, your fuel, or your fertilizer, you are in trouble. And you know, the unfortunate thing is that dozens of countries right now, they fit the criteria.”
Briefing journalists today (03 May) in New York via video teleconference on the Global Report on Food Crises 2023, FAO’s Chief Economist Máximo Torero said, “Now, the populations are facing high levels of acute food insecurity, not only in magnitude but also in prevalence.”
He continued, “If we will look at the 10 largest food crisis countries in terms of magnitude. The first one will be DRC. The second one would be Ethiopia, then Afghanistan, Nigeria, Yemen, Myanmar, Syria Arab Republic, Sudan, Ukraine and Pakistan.”
Torero said, “Now what is the global overview in terms of displacement? 53.2 million were internally displaced in 25 food-crisis countries and 19.7 million were refugees and asylum seekers in 55 food-crisis countries.”
He added, “The global overview of malnutrition shows that areas with high levels of acute food insecurity tend to have high level of child wasting.”
Torero explained, “If we look at the drivers, the primary drivers of acute food insecurity in these countries were conflicts, which was the main driver for people, but economic shocks in this opportunity, were the main drivers for more countries and these are the consequences for what happened with COVID-19 and which was accelerated by the war in Ukraine.”
According to the Chief Economist, “The global food prices decreased since March 2022, as FAO has reported, but we have not seen the transmission of that decrease into domestic food prices, which still remain high.”
Also speaking to the journalists, the Chief Economist of the World Food Programme (WFP), Arif Husain, said, “I will take you back to 2019 just before COVID when we had about 135 million people in 53 countries with IPC three or worse. Today 258 million people in IPC three in 58 countries so it is really comparable. So you just see that just from there food insecurity is almost doubled.”
Husain concluded, “If you're a poor country, if you have high debt, if you have high food inflation, if you have high currency depreciation, and if you're dealing with high interest rates, and you happen to import your food, your fuel, or your fertilizer, you are in trouble. And you know, the unfortunate thing is that dozens of countries right now, they fit the criteria.”
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