BBM 2023 Haziran - June

CONSUMPTION RESEARCH • TÜKETİM ARAŞTIRMASI BBM • JUNE - HAZİRAN 2023 64 launched today by the Global Network Against Food Crises (GNAFC) - an international alliance of the United Nations, the European Union, governmental and non-governmental agencies, working to tackle food crises together. The report finds that around 258 million people in 58 countries and territories faced acute food insecurity at cri- sis or worse levels (IPC/CH Phase 3-5) in 2022, up from 193 million people in 53 countries and territories in 2021. This is the highest number in the seven-year history of the report. However, much of this growth reflects an increase in the population analysed. In 2022, the severity of acute food insecurity increased to 22.7 percent, from 21.3 percent in 2021, but remains unacceptably high and underscores a deteriorating trend in global acute food insecurity. “More than a quarter of a billion people are now fac- ing acute levels of hunger, and some are on the brink of starvation. That’s unconscionable,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres wrote in the report’s foreword. “This seventh edition of the Global Report on Food Crises is a stinging indictment of humanity’s failure to make progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 2 to end hunger and achieve food security and improved nutrition for all.” According to the report, more than 40 percent of the population in IPC/CH Phase 3 or above resided in just five countries – Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, parts of Nigeria (21 states and the Federal Capital Territory - FCT), and Yemen. People in seven countries faced starvation and destitu- tion, or catastrophe levels of acute hunger (IPC/CH Phase 5) at some point during 2022. More than half of those were in Somalia (57 percent), while such extreme circum- stances also occurred in Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Haiti (for the first time in the history of the country), Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen. Around 35 million people experienced emergency lev- els of acute hunger (IPC/CH Phase 4) in 39 countries, with more than half of those located in just four countries – Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Sudan and Yemen. ally, in 30 of the 42 main food crises contexts analysed in the report, over 35 million children under five years of age suffered from wasting or acute malnutrition, with 9.2 mil- lion of them with severe wasting, the most life-threatening form of undernutrition and a major contributor to increased child mortality. While conflicts and extreme weather events continue to drive acute food insecurity and malnutrition, the economic fallout of the СOVID-19 pandemic and the ripple effects Avrupa Birliği, hükümet ve sivil toplum kuruluşlarından oluşan uluslararası bir ittifak olan Gıda Krizlerine Karşı Küresel Ağ (GNAFC) tarafından başlatıldı. Rapora göre 2021 yılında 53 ülke ve bölgede 193 milyon kişi kriz ya da daha kötü seviyelerde (IPC/CH Faz 3-5) akut gıda güvensizliği yaşarken, 2022 yılında bu sayı 58 ülke ve bölgede yaklaşık 258 milyon kişiye ulaştı. Raporun yedi yıl- lık geçmişinde bu sayı en yüksek seviye olarak kaydedildi. Ancak bu artışın büyük bir kısmı analiz edilen nüfustaki artı- şı yansıtmaktadır. 2022’de akut gıda güvensizliğinin şidde- ti 2021’deki yüzde 21,3’ten yüzde 22,7’ye yükseldi, ancak kabul edilemez derecede yüksek olmaya devam ediyor ve küresel akut gıda güvensizliğinde kötüleşen bir eğilimin al- tını çiziyor. Birleşmiş Milletler (BM) Genel Sekreteri António Guter- res raporun önsözünde şu çarpıcı bilgilere dikkat çekti: