Food aid 2018: the never-ending crisis

by IRIN

Photo: World Food Programme truck at IDP camp [courtesy WFP]

2018  This special IRIN report focuses on those who are most food insecure – those on the frontline of humanitarian emergencies who don’t know where their next meal is coming from.

Including:  “According to the UN’s Global Humanitarian Overview for 2018, some $22.5 billion in aid will be required in the coming year to help 90.9 million of the 135.7 million vulnerable people in need of assistance and protection.  Funding can’t keep pace with need, so where are the biggest gaps and which groups are missing out most? This special IRIN report focuses on those who are most food insecure – those on the frontline of humanitarian emergencies who don’t know where their next meal is coming from.

The common driver in most of the food crises around the globe is conflict.

“Today, around 80 percent of every dollar spent by the World Food Programme goes to operations in war zones.

“This has some aid workers wondering if the funding tap will remain on in wealthy countries, where voters may cool to financing seemingly endless operations in countries beset by intractable man-made problems….”

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