By CARE's Global Hunger Team | CARE's Crisis Response Team
The issue
The escalating global food crisis has gotten so extreme that as of September, 205.1 million people urgently need food assistance just to survive.[1] Impacts from the Ukraine crisis on nitrogen fertilizer availability for farmers worldwide and skyrocketing costs of fuel means significantly less food could be available over the next 6 months, driving 4 times more people into extreme hunger.[2] CARE has launched a $250M campaign to invest in climate-smart food production and better storage today, change government food systems for good, and respond to those on the brink of starvation now. With your support, we can avert crisis if we act fast.
Why now?
The immediate repercussions of war in Ukraine i.e., shortages of fertilizer and fuel are resulting in astronomical price increases worldwide. Compounding the effects of climate change like prolonged drought and excessive flooding, a global pandemic and conflict, small-scale farmers in poor countries simply do not have the buffer to withstand exponential costs. As a result, their families’ nutrition suffers the consequences. For people living in already fragile contexts, the economic crisis is directly tied to hunger with little middle ground. It means they cannot afford seeds nor fertilizer to produce healthy agricultural yields, storage is scarce or vulnerable to spoilage, and fuel costs prohibit them from getting their crops to market. We must support global farmers now to ensure they are able to plant crops this planting season so there is something to harvest in the months ahead.
If we can curb the shock to the food production system and build resilience quickly, we may be able to prevent further decline.As the crisis in Ukraine continues, droughts persist around the world, and climate shocks like the floods in Pakistan continue, food production will remain low. The hunger crisis will worsen in 2023 and beyond if we don't act now.
Read CARE's updated report on who's impacted most, how we can avert the crisis, CARE's full-scale reponse and more.
[1]https://www.fsinplatform.org/sites/default/files/resources/files/GRFC%202022%20MYU%20Final.pdf
[2] The UN estimates that the crisis in Ukraine will push at least 95 million more people into extreme poverty. That is a total of 826 million people living below $1.90 per day.
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