This Wednesday (8) UN Secretary-General António Guterres said the consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are worsening around the world, affecting 1.6 billion people. conflict.
“The impact of war on food security, energy and finance is systemic, serious and accelerating,” he warned.
“War threatens to create an unprecedented wave of hunger and misery, leaving a trail of social and economic chaos around the world,” the UN chief said.
He warned that if the food crisis currently corresponds to a “lack of access” to food, next year it could be directly due to a “lack of food”.
“There is only one way to stop this growing storm: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine must be stopped,” Guterres said.
He said the negotiations the UN was waiting for were “necessary” to achieve a good goal of “guaranteeing the export of food produced by the Black Sea in Ukraine and unimpeded access to world markets for Russian food and fertilizers”.
“This agreement is very important to hundreds of millions of people in developing countries, including sub-Saharan Africa,” he said, without detailing the status of these negotiations, with no visible results so far.
According to the UN report, “94 countries, home to nearly 1.6 billion people, are severely exposed and unable to cope with at least one of the dimensions of the crisis (finance, food or energy).
Three-quarters of these 1.6 billion people live in vulnerable countries that are severely exposed to three dimensions at the same time,” the document emphasizes, assuring that “no country or society will survive this cost-of-living crisis” in the future.
– Food insecurity – “War could increase the number of people with food insecurity from 47 million in 2022 to 323 million at the end of the year”.
In Latin America, he said, the hardest hit areas will be Central America and the Caribbean islands, as they are already experiencing a “perfect storm” where they will not only have difficulty accessing food, but also energy and financial problems. The main person responsible for the report. , Rebeca Grynspan at a press conference.
According to the report, which predicts that extreme poverty in the Middle East and North Africa could “affect more than 2.8 million people in 2022,” Africa “could add up to 58 million to poverty this year”.
In Southeast Asia, “500 million people are severely exposed to the food and financial dimensions of the crisis”, a situation “aggravated by strong heat waves affecting crops in the region,” according to the UN.
source: Noticias
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