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Addressing the Security Council meeting on advancing public-private humanitarian partnership, Cindy H. McCain, Executive Director of the World Food Programme, said, “Sadly, today, the humanitarian sector is one of the world’s biggest growth industries.” UNIFEED

Right now, in Afghanistan, over 15 million people are struggling to put food on their plates and the World Food Programme (WFP) can only support 3 million of them from now on due to a massive funding shortfall. WFP

Floods, droughts and extreme temperatures continued to be the norm during the month of August. UNIFEED

The Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, told the Security Council that despite hostilities having not returned to pre-truce levels, “intermittent fighting” continues and “there have been public threats to return to war.” UNIFEED

With conflict and economic decline continuing across Sudan, UN humanitarians on Friday dubbed the country “one of the most food-insecure on the planet.” UNTV CH

South Sudan is simultaneously drowning and drying as the climate crisis tightens its grip. A unique combination of catastrophic floods and devastating drought are driving hunger to unprecedented levels as access to food is pushed out of reach of families who were previously able to feed themselves. WFP

The cost of inaction in addressing South Sudan’s complex food, climate, and insecurity crises will be felt in the loss of lives, livelihoods and futures for millions of people across the young nation, the heads of three United Nations agencies, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Tuesday, as they wrapped up a three-day visit to the country. FAO / IFAD / WFP

Deputy Executive Director of the World Food Program (WFP) Carl Skau, said that the Programme is in the midst of a “crippling funding crisis” and it is forced to “scale back lifesaving assistance, right as acute hunger is hitting record levels.” UNIFEED

The UN Food Systems Summit +2 Stocktaking Moment closed on Wednesday at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) after three days of high-level events, meetings and dialogues bringing together over 2000 participants from 180 countries to explore challenges and opportunities to transform agrifood systems. FAO

The ripple effects of Sudan’s war are impacting hunger and migration across West and Central Africa, rapidly depleting scarce resources, further stressing the already underfunded humanitarian response, and exacerbating inter-communal tensions. WFP