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224 million people suffer hunger within sub-Saharan Africa
20.11.2017 09:17 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
The number of people suffering from chronic undernutrition within sub-Saharan Africa surged to 224 million last year, up 12% against 2015, UN Radio says referring to the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) report.
As to the report, conflict and climate change is the main factors for this condition worsening. So,
the region now contains a quarter of the world undernourished people.
As to the report, the hunger rise within sub-Saharan Africa shows that the gains made within improving peoples nutrition in the region within the first decade of the century have been lost.
Reportedly, the change is linked to severe food insecurity caused by an increasing number of conflicts and disastrous weather in many part of east and southern Africa.
FAO spokesperson Andre Croppenstedt highlighted the need to help vulnerable communities quickly, citing how displaced people in northern Uganda had been encouraged to return to farming after the countrys civil war:
«The damage is not irreparable, but the speed of recovery depends of course on how well coordinated and funded the responses are. The experience of Uganda shows that this can be reasonably quick recovery if communities are supported in rebuilding their assets, roads, irrigation, but also given support in terms of restarting productive activities through feed and fertilizer.»
The report points out that more than one-third of the world worst conflicts are situated within this region, which encompasses 46 countries.
And of 19 nations suffering long-running crises around the world, 13 are in sub-Saharan Africa.
The key clashes responsible for this include those within South Sudan, Somalia and the Lake Chad region situations that are within some cases too unsafe for humanitarian workers to operate.
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