More than 800 million people around the world are starving due to armed conflicts, climate change and underdevelopment, according to figures released today by the German organization “Welthungerhilfe” as part of its annual report.
“For many years there has been continuous improvement in the fight against hunger, but since 2014 the situation has changed: multiple crises are causing a continuous increase in the number of hungry people,” the report said, noting that food insecurity is now worsening due to and rising food prices.
Particularly dramatic, according to the organization, is the situation in Yemen, Afghanistan and South Sudan, but also in Madagascar and the countries of East Africa, where climate change is causing widespread drought. “This is a wake-up call to finally step up efforts to tackle climate change, which is leading to increasingly severe humanitarian emergencies,” the Welthungerhilfe Report emphasizes. In 2021 the most important aggravating factors were the increasingly serious armed conflicts. “Wars have a huge impact on the food system because, for example, crops are burned. Warehouses are looted and the sale of products is limited,” the organization says.
In the same context, Minister of Development Assistance Svenja Sulce accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of cutting off food supplies for strategic reasons. “One can see that Putin is using hunger as a weapon of war, that he is deliberately bombing Ukrainian ports so that grain cannot be delivered,” Ms Schulze told rbb radio.
Source: Capital
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