A joint report warns of high levels of food insecurity in 23 countries, including Syria

In a joint statement, the World Food Program and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned of high levels of food insecurity in 23 countries, including Syria.

According to the report published by the FAO on its official website, the fighting and sieges are further hampering efforts to combat the global rise in general food insecurity, adding that the fighting and the siege impede the delivery of life-saving aid to families who are on the brink of starvation.

The report added that bureaucratic obstacles and lack of funding impede the efforts of the two agencies to provide emergency food assistance, and that food insecurity levels will rise in 23 hot spots during the next four months, due to international conflicts and the economic repercussions of the Corona epidemic and the climate crisis.

The report identified 23 countries that will face a risk of high levels of food insecurity in the coming months, including 6 Arab countries, namely Syria, Lebanon, Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia and Yemen. These organizations warned that 41 million people are at risk of starvation unless they receive immediate aid, while the year witnessed
Past 2020 155 million people face acute food insecurity.

The report indicated that countries with the largest number of people in urgent need of food assistance are Haiti, Honduras, Sudan and Syria, while the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization said that most of those who are on the verge of collapse are farmers, and we must do everything in our power to help them
Produce food themselves.

It is noteworthy that the World Food Program said on July 5 that 4.8 million Syrians depend on food aid from the United Nations World Food Program and that they follow negative coping strategies and methods to survive.