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UNICEF estimates that over 100,000 children in Tigray could suffer from life-threatening severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in the next 12 months – a tenfold increase compared to the average annual caseload. UNICEF

More than 100,000 children in Tigray, Ethiopia, could suffer from life-threatening severe acute malnutrition in the next 12 months, a 10-fold jump over average annual levels, UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday. UNTV CH

The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Qu Dongyu, today told hundreds of delegates in FAO’s Plenary Hall that there was an acute need for renewed investment to end hunger and malnutrition by 2030, as envisaged under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). FAO / RAI

A holistic, coordinated approach is urgently needed to transform agri-food systems and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. This was the call made by the QU Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to world leaders participating in the opening of the Pre-Summit of the UN Food Systems Summit. FAO / RAI - UN POOL

United Nations spokesperson Florencia Soto Nino-Martinez said hundreds of thousands of people in Madagascar, “continue to suffer from one of the worst droughts the southern region of the country has faced in more than 40 years,” leaving “at least 1.31 million people—nearly two in every five people in the Grand Sud — severely food insecure.” UNIFEED

The Government of Italy has made an additional (USD) 2 million contribution to fund the Productive Sectors Development Programme (PSDP) that seeks to boost job creation, access to economic opportunities for women and youth, development and strengthen governance to boost economic growth in Somalia. UNSOM

“Nearly one in three people in the world, 2.5 billion people didn’t have access to adequate food in 2020,” the FAO Chief Economist told reporters in New York on Monday, while his counterpart from the WFP called for investing in “changing people’s lives and in minimizing conflict.” UNIFEED

There was a dramatic worsening of world hunger in 2020, the United Nations said Monday (12 Jul) – much of it likely related to the fallout of COVID-19. While the pandemic’s impact has yet to be fully mapped, a multi-agency report estimates that around a tenth of the global population – up to 811 million people – were undernourished last year. FAO

UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia Adam Abdelmoula said the “cost of inaction” in the country is “too high,” adding that the humanitarian crisis there has escalated in recent years “due to repeated climate shocks, protracted conflict, insecurity, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the worst desert locust infestation in a generation.” UNIFEED

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) warns that without urgent funding, one of the world’s fastest-growing displacement crises in northern Mozambique risks becoming a hunger emergency as families continue to flee insurgent violence. WFP