{"id":267940,"date":"2023-11-06T19:32:11","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T14:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=267940"},"modified":"2023-11-07T09:47:54","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T04:17:54","slug":"hunger-hotspot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/hunger-hotspot\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunger Hotspot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: This post “Hunger hotspot<\/strong>” is based on the article”Hunger Hotspots: FAO-WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity | June-November 2023 Outlook<\/strong>” in “World food programme Report<\/strong>” on 29 May 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why in News?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

FAO and WFP have warned that acute food insecurity is likely to deteriorate further in 18 hunger hotspots \u2013 comprising a total 22 countries<\/strong> \u2013 during from June to November 2023.<\/p>\n

What is World Food programme?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The World Food Programme is the world\u2019s largest humanitarian organization. <\/strong>It was established in 1961. The aim of the organisation is to save lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity.<\/p>\n\"Hunger\n

About the report<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Aspect<\/strong><\/td>\nDetails<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
What is the report?<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a0The FAO-WFP\u00a0Hunger\u00a0Hotspots<\/strong> study focusses on acute food insecurity in hunger hotspot regions of the world.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Issued By<\/strong><\/td>\nJointly by Food and Agriculture Organisation(FAO) and World Food programme(WFP).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Countries\u00a0<\/strong>Covered<\/b><\/td>\n22 Countries<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

What are the key findings of the Report?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

(1) Hotspots with highest concern-<\/strong>\u00a0Afghanistan, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen remain hotspots of highest concern for the June to November 2023 outlook.
\nHaiti, the Sudan and Sahel region (Burkina Faso and Mali) have been included in this category for this edition, increasing the level of concern from very high in the last edition.<\/p>\n

(2) Hotspots with very high concern- <\/strong>The Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Pakistan and the Syrian Arab Republic are hotspots of very high concern, and the alert is also extended to Myanmar in this edition.<\/p>\n

(3) Other countries that Requires monitoring-<\/strong> Democratic Republic of Korea, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Colombia, Gambia and Senegal.<\/p>\n

Factors causing food insecurity in these hotspots<\/strong><\/p>\n

(1) Violence- <\/strong>Population displacement, abandonment of agricultural land, loss of life and assets, disruption of trade and cropping and loss of access to markets\u00a0caused by conflicts can worsen food insecurity.<\/strong><\/p>\n

(2) Natural Hazards- <\/strong>Extreme weather conditions and climate variability are likely to affect several parts of the world during the outlook period.<\/p>\n

(3) Poor humanitarian access- <\/strong>Humanitarian access is limited in various ways, including administrative\/bureaucratic impediments, movement restrictions, security constraints and physical constraints<\/strong>\u00a0related to the environment.<\/p>\n

Upsc Syllabus- Food security(Report)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: This post “Hunger hotspot” is based on the article”Hunger Hotspots: FAO-WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity | June-November 2023 Outlook” in “World food programme Report” on 29 May 2023. Why in News? FAO and WFP have warned that acute food insecurity is likely to deteriorate further in 18 hunger hotspots \u2013 comprising a… Continue reading Hunger Hotspot<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10367,"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],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-267940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-index-reports-bodies","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":53,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1699301885},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267940","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\/10367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}