Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Famine & Food Insecurity rising fast: A Bleak Look for Humanitarian Aid: At least 320 million people malnourished.

 Food insecurity in Myanmar has risen sharply amid the worst humanitarian crisis in its recent history, affecting 12.9 million or one in four people.

 In South America, more than a third (36.4%) of the population suffered moderate or severe food insecurity.  43.2 million people. including Caribbean and Central America.

Latin America and the Caribbean is increasingly facing the complex problem of malnutrition, which encompasses both undernutrition - stunting, childhood wasting, and vitamin and mineral deficiencies - and overweight and obesity.

 Over 25 million going hungry Latest projections indicate that 25.8 million people in the DRC will face acute food insecurity in 2023  Congo

 In Mesoamerica, the prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity reached 34.5 % in 2022, 

 ​​Somalia is marked by decades of civil war and anarchy. Now Somalia has been hit by a devastating drought and related famine. A total 6.6 million people, over a third of the population, were forecast to face crisis levels of hunger or worse by mid-2023 –

 2.7 million Zimbabweans need food aid. More than 60% of Zimbabwe's 15 million people live in rural areas. Their life is increasingly affected by a cycle of drought and floods aggravated by climate change.

In the current period, from July to September 2023, 579,000 people in Namibia (22 percent of the population) are experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above)  food insecurity is expected to increase from 659,000 to 750,000.
 
 Already, over 2,500 people are living in famine-like conditions meaning people are starving to death every day due to an extreme lack of food. Mali From October to December 2021, nearly 1.2 million people were known to be in need of emergency food assistance (phase 3 & 4), almost three times higher than the year before.
 
 One million hectares (2.5 million acres) from 2.2 million planted crops have been destroyed. Zambia's malnutrition rates remain among the highest in the world. Before declaration of disaster, Zambia due to El Niño-induced drought and resultant food insecurity leading to an estimated 6.6 million people requiring humanitarian assistance through the March 2025 harvest season.
 
 As many as 18 million out of the population of 45 million may be at risk of catastrophic famine (the most extreme form of food insecurity) as soon as May in Sudan
 
 Around 20.1 million people across Ethiopia need humanitarian food due to drought, conflict and a tanking economy
 
 India is home to a quarter of all undernourished people worldwide, making the country a key focus for tackling hunger on a global scale. India is home to an estimated 200 million malnourished people, suggesting widespread food insecurity.

 The United Nations (UN) and partner organizations estimate that 299.4 million people will need humanitarian assistance and protection in 2024.

 https://www.npr.org/2024/02/17/1232283432/a-bleak-outlook-for-global-humanitarian-funding-in-2024

So I count up an estimated 320 Million Malnourished hungry people including Asia, Latin America and Africa.

It's probably closer to 500 million people out of 8 billion people. So much for "global civilization" with one out of six people approximately malnourished or starving.

 OK obesity is bad but not nearly as bad as starving to death:

In total, 159 million children and adolescents and 879 million adults were living with obesity in 2022.
obesity seems to get a lot more attention in the medical research.

 In Mexico, almost four out of every 10 people over 15 years of age suffer from obesity. It has the second-highest obesity rate of the countries that make up the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), just six points below the United States (42.8%). More than half of Gen Z adults – about 56% of Americans ages 18 to 25 – are overweight or obese. In 2022, around 35 percent of adults in Canada were overweight and 30 percent were obese.

 Nearly five million people - almost half of the country's population – are now facing acute food insecurity and struggling to feed themselves, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis released today. “Haitians are on the edge - every other person is now hungry.

 

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