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TOMORROW➡️ Join the Global Network Against Food Crises #GNAFC at the #ECOSOCHAS 2024 side event➡️ The Urgent Need to Address Famine Risks and Acute Food Insecurity: How can we rapidly avert and prevent current and future food crisis? ⌚️13:15-14:30 EDT (NYC Time) 📍NYC, United Nations HQ Conference Room 7 Online Registration 🔗bit.ly/4cvAVWn More Information 🔗bit.ly/3VFDle6

#AnticipatoryAction and emergency response are priorities in #HungerHotspots. Short-term interventions must be implemented before new humanitarian needs materialize, and actions must be taken to address existing and emerging humanitarian needs.   Read more in the FAO-World Food Programme Hunger Hotspots June-October 2024 Outlook 🔗bit.ly/3x07nRJ

Join us at #ECOSOCHAS2024 on June 25, 1:15-2:30 EDT for an impactful side-event "The Urgent Need to Address Famine Risks and Acute Food Insecurity" in-person at the United Nations HQ in New York or virtually by registering on https://lnkd.in/dbcrsqHz.   This critical discussion will feature insights from a distinguished group of leaders and experts including Mark Smith, VP for Humanitarian and Emergency Affairs at World Vision USA, who will explore the root causes of hunger and discuss measures that can be taken to reduce acute #FoodInsecurity and to prevent #Famine. Mark will also draw from World Vision's critical and timely publication which spoke to vulnerable communities in six countries (#Afghanistan, #Bangladesh, #DRCongo, #Lebanon, #Uganda, and #Somalia) that have been affected by recent shortfalls in emergency food and cash assistance resulting in an alarming increase in negative coping mechanisms such as #ChildLabour and #MentalHealthRisks. https://lnkd.in/dwPiUG8k Don't miss this opportunity to engage with global leaders and contribute to the conversation. Together, we can make a difference and work towards a world where no one has to suffer from #hunger, especially #children. FAO, World Food Programme, #SwissmissionUN, #NorwaymissionUN, #GuyanamissionUN, #SierraLeonmissionUN, Save the Children International, International Rescue Committee, Global Network Against Food Crises, #CoalitionAgainstConflictAndHunger, Oxfam, ACTION CONTRE LA FAIM, Concern Worldwide Brett Hanley Alexa Caesar Dervla Cleary Tash Van Doimen Magnus Forberg Andersen Andrea Sweeney Alexandra Kotowski Giulia Contò Michelle Brown Alessandra Thomsen Lawrence Robinson Bushra Khalidi

#HungerHotspots are impacted by overlapping drivers, interlinked or mutually reinforcing. These fall under the categories of organized violence and #conflict, economic shocks, weather extremes and #climate threats. Learn more in the June-October 2024 Outlook 🔗 bit.ly/3x07nRJ

According to the 2024 Regional Report on Food Security and Nutrition in West Africa and the #Sahel ➡ By the first trimester of 2024, approximately 8.4 million people were forcibly displaced. Learn more about acute #foodinsecurity, #malnutrition, and #displacement in the #RRSAN report 🔗bit.ly/3xjlzVS

Targeted #humanitarian action is urgently needed to save lives and livelihoods in all 18 #HungerHotspots. In Haiti, Mali, #Palestine, South Sudan and Sudan, humanitarian action is critical to prevent starvation and death. Read more in the report 🔗bit.ly/3x07nRJ

According to the 2024 Regional Report on Food Security and Nutrition in the #Sahel and West Africa, nearly 1.5 million pregnant and breastfeeding women faced acute #malnutrition in 6 countries by the end of 2023. Learn more in the #RRSAN report 🔗 bit.ly/3xjlzVS ________________ Selon le Rapport Régional sur la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle au #Sahel et en Afrique de l’Ouest 2024, près de 1,5 million de femmes enceintes et allaitantes étaient confrontées à la #malnutrition aiguë dans 6 pays à la fin de 2023. #RRSAN 🔗 bit.ly/3xjlzVS

This year’s Global Report on Food Crises #GRFC24 underscores the vital need for expanding and harnessing diverse data sources for #nutrition, while also ensuring consistent mechanisms for its availability. ➡ We need more data to better understand nutrition situations. Take a look at the evidence and read more about acute #malnutrition in the report 🔗bit.ly/GRFC2024

🔴 Acute food insecurity is set to increase in magnitude and severity in 18 places over the next months. Urgent action is required in the hotspots where starvation is a major threat - Gaza, Haiti, Mali, Palestine, Sudan and South Sudan. Learn more on https://lnkd.in/dyBY5BPx