{"id":123360,"date":"2021-08-04T18:08:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T12:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=123360"},"modified":"2021-08-04T18:08:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T12:38:21","slug":"un-warns-hunger-is-expected-to-rise-in-23-global-hotspots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/un-warns-hunger-is-expected-to-rise-in-23-global-hotspots\/","title":{"rendered":"UN warns hunger is expected to rise in 23 global hotspots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/un-warns-hunger-is-expected-to-rise-in-23-global-hotspots\/article35657912.ece\"><strong>The Hindu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and World Food Program(WFP) has released a new report titled \u201cHunger Hotspots\u201d.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>About Hunger Hotspots Report:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Hunger Hotspots Report <\/strong>is an early-warning analysis of countries and situations called hotspots where acute food insecurity is likely to deteriorate over the coming months.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Key Findings of the Report:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Hunger <\/strong>is expected to rise in 23 global hotspot countries in the next three months.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The highest alerts <\/strong>for \u201ccatastrophic\u201d situations are in Ethiopia\u2019s Tigray region, southern Madagascar, Yemen, South Sudan and northern Nigeria.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Note: <\/strong>India is not one of the Hotspot countries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Overall<\/strong>, over 41 million people worldwide are at risk of falling into famine or famine-like conditions unless they receive immediate life and livelihood-saving assistance.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The primary reasons for an increase in hunger<\/strong> are conflict dynamics, economic shocks, the socio-economic impacts of COVID- 19, weather extremes and the diffusion of plant pests and animal diseases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Note: <\/strong>The <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/gnafc-releases-global-report-on-food-crises-2021\/\">Global Food Crises Report <\/a>released in May 2021 has already warned that 40.5 million people in 17 countries are facing acute food insecurity because of \u201ceconomic shocks\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Hindu What is the News? The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and World Food Program(WFP) has released a new report titled \u201cHunger Hotspots\u201d. About Hunger Hotspots Report: The Hunger Hotspots Report is an early-warning analysis of countries and situations called hotspots where acute food insecurity is likely to deteriorate over the coming months.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/un-warns-hunger-is-expected-to-rise-in-23-global-hotspots\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UN warns hunger is expected to rise in 23 global hotspots<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,1305,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-index-reports-bodies","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700772427,"cached_date":1704629223},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}