COVID-19: Nigeria, 24 others to face acute hunger – Report
The report titled, FAO-WFP early warning analysis of acute food insecurity hotspots, was published early Friday by the WFP on its webpage.
Apart from Nigeria, some of the West African countries expected to experience similar fate include Liberia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Niger, Burkina Faso. These include ‘impacts on food access through reduced household purchasing power; impacts on availability of food; agricultural production and food supply chains, impacts on government capacities to protect vulnerable populations; impacts on political stability, and impacts on conflict dynamics.”
The report said the situation could worsen this year due to the impact of COVID-19, but the precise magnitude of the deterioration is not yet known. The cost of WFP’s response to this burgeoning food insecurity is estimated at $4.9 billion, with an additional $500 million being earmarked to prevent the outbreak of famine in countries most at risk, the report notes.
In the bid to mitigate the effects of the pandemic on global food systems, the FAO recently launched a COVID-19 response and recovery programme, while it is also calling for an initial investment fund of $1.2 billion to scale up the fight of preventing a global food emergency crisis during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
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