"In 2023, #Ukraine supplied 80% of the wheat procured to support humanitarian operations in the most #FoodInsecure countries such as #Afghanistan, #Djibouti, #Ethiopia, #Kenya, #Somalia, #Sudan and #Yemen." #UkraineWar #BSGI #GrainCorridor #BlackSea

#Putin is using food as a weapon – but his cynical attempts to drum up forced allies will fail | Joseph Borrell
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/03/russia-food-vladimir-putin-black-sea-grain-initiative-eu-aid

If you know any families in #LosAngeles #SoCal who are #FoodInsecure make sure they're aware of this:

https://laist.com/news/health/la-kids-and-teens-can-get-free-lunches-thoughout-summer

What do #BigAg, #ViolentRanchers, and their#CorruptPoliticians have in common? Billions in federal $subsidies to #WasteWater with export free-trade ready #ThirstyCrops during #droughts, polluted #drinking water supplies with farm #chemicals, destroyed #habitat for rare species, #PesticideDrift, #deadzones from runoff, #ICE to #criminalize and exploit #farmworkers, 34M #foodinsecure Americans, and dammed and destroyed rivers.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01032023/farm-bill-climate-change/

@TeaganArtist we shouldn’t have #hungry children in this world. It’s just wrong. So much waste! #foodinsecure #foodinsecurity #waste

#SriLanka at the end of 2022
*36% #FoodInsecure (43% estate households, 36% rural, 33% urban & 43% female headed)
* 73% restoring to coping methods
* 73% relying on less preferred food
* 53% limiting portions
* 40% limiting number of meals
*5 in 10 households borrowing or pawning items to buy food
* Over the past 3 months, food security levels have
relatively stabilised but still remain concerningly
high
* The upcoming lean season is likely to deteriorate the situ - WFP https://docs.wfp.org/api/documents/WFP-0000145136/download/?_ga=2.165212927.1735669368.1671417615-1980285780.1665027150

#SriLanka ends 2022 with
* 36% households #FoodInsecure
* 7m in need of assistance
* 35% households face insufficient food consumption
* 80% households report poor access to regular food
* Dairy consumption halved since June
* Economy shrank by 11.8% between July - Sep 22 - WFP
Details - https://api.godocs.wfp.org/api/documents/b44fc6a2b56042ec8d01019b44727bf2/download/

From WFP #SriLanka Country Strategic Plan (2023-27)
🔘6.3m #FoodInsecure, in need of support through existing social assistance mechanisms, food assistance livelihood programmes
🔘The country achieved upper middle income status in 2019, fell below the threshold in 2020
🔘highly vulnerable to impacts of #ClimateChange, in particular rising sea levels,
increasing temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, intensifying extreme events
such as flooding, storms and droughts

Somber Reading
#SriLanka humanitarian situ Nov/22
🔘3 in 10 or 36% of households #FoodInsecure
🔘7 million people in need
🔘🇱🇰 among top 10 globally in high food inflation - annual inflation at 81%
🔘8 in 10 households turning to livelihood-based coping strategies such as selling productive assets
🔘Food inflation in Colombo at 73.7% down from 85.6% in Oct @WFP https://reliefweb.int/report/sri-lanka/wfp-sri-lanka-situation-report-05-december-2022

RT @HilalElver@twitter.com

It is very sad that there is nothing about #RightToFood in #COP27 final document. Only #production, production, production! Is this the way we include #ClimateJustice to a 3 billion #FoodInsecure people?

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/HilalElver/status/1594391764160217088

#SriLanka Economic Crisis,
UN OCHA country head concerned by the further deterioration of the food security situation.
Latest reports
🔘6.3m, 28% of population moderately to severely #FoodInsecure
🔘Food inflation at 85.6% in Oct 22
🔘More harvest losses forecasted for 2023
Details - https://reliefweb.int/report/sri-lanka/sri-lanka-multi-dimensional-crisis-humanitarian-needs-and-priorities-june-dec-2022-revised-31-october-2022-ensita