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Hollingworth

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2023-11-21
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  1. “We must all keep our efforts on the immediate needs in that country, but also on the long game, to ensure that this agricultural powerhouse can be quickly put back on its feet and made able to feed the world’s hungry, because when the next food crisis happens globally, the world will continue to need Ukraine.”

    2023-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9483 (2023) · source

  2. “The most recent rapid damage and needs assessment estimated that the country has already experienced a loss of $40.2 billion in damages to the agricultural sector. And Ukrainian farmers and Ukrainian rural communities most affected need support or indeed they will be left behind. Thirdly, alongside the rest of the United Nations, the World Food Programme and others have to work to ensure that there continue to be a viable market for the food that is produced in Ukraine. Otherwise, there is simply no incentive for farmers to farm. That includes working to reduce the enormous increase in logistics costs created by any hindrance to the use of Black Sea ports.”

    2023-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9483 (2023) · source

  3. “If attacks on food infrastructure and the blockage of sea export routes continue, it will dramatically impact the agricultural production outlook over years to come, and may, in the worst-case scenario, lead to wheat production being unable to meet domestic and export demands. That export of produce means that people are being fed around the world. It is important to remember that Ukraine accounted for 9 per cent of global wheat exports, 15 per cent of maize exports and 44 per cent of sunflower oil exports before February 2022. Our task is now threefold. First, we must continue to address the acute and urgent humanitarian food needs facing millions of Ukrainians. Secondly, as we do that, we must not lose sight of the food system recovery efforts that are required.”

    2023-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9483 (2023) · source

  4. “The households there are twice as likely to have inadequate food consumption when they cannot have access to their own land to produce their own food. But the war in Ukraine has also meant that there are continuing attacks on port and grain infrastructure. A forthcoming report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights will reveal some findings. Since mid-July, there have been 31 documented attacks targeting facilities crucial to grain production and export from the country. Twenty- eight of those attacks were in Odesa oblast alone, which is the home of the vital Black Sea and Danube River terminals essential for global trade in food.”

    2023-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9483 (2023) · source

  5. “Approximately 174,000 square km, roughly 30 per cent of Ukraine’s territory, have been affected by the conflict and are potentially contaminated by remnants of war. Out of that great number, 25,000 square km is agricultural, food-producing land, and that was some of the most productive land in the country. Despite farming less than 7 per cent of the country’s land, it is the smallholder farmers in Ukraine who contribute to 75 per cent of the employment within this sector, and they have been the most adversely affected by the war. As an example, last week I was in Kharkiv oblast, visiting an agricultural demining project that the World Food Programme manages with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.”

    2023-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9483 (2023) · source

  6. “While responding to the food security needs, the irony should not be lost on us that, in one of the world’s most formidable breadbaskets, there are hundreds of thousands of people living in proximity to the hostilities who now depend on humanitarian food assistance with no obvious way to cope. The humanitarian needs in the country are sadly but fundamentally linked to the consequences of the war in Ukraine on agriculture and rural food- producing communities. The impact on Ukrainian agriculture is not only about big numbers, metric tons produced and grains exported, but also about the impact on the everyday life of citizens of the country. Today the war means fields are contaminated with mines and unexploded ordnance, and households are unable to grow the food they need to feed themselves.”

    2023-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9483 (2023) · source

  7. “Today around one in five Ukrainian families faces some level of severe food insecurity. The closer someone lives to the hostilities, the more critical those needs are. As a result, more than 900,000 people still living within 30 km of the front line have the most acute and severe food security needs, which only worsen in the winter. The World Food Programme is feeding some 750,000 of those people with food baskets throughout the winter, and additionally another 1.5 million people who have broader needs will receive some form of cash assistance in areas that have been directly affected by the conflict but where markets are still working. Consistently, when people are asked about their priority needs, food, access to medicine and indeed shelter in the winter come out on top.”

    2023-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9483 (2023) · source

  8. “Mr. Hollingworth: On behalf of the World Food Programme, I am honoured to appear before the Security Council today. I will briefly speak about the humanitarian consequences of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine and, in particular, the impact on food security both domestically and globally. Today, because of hostilities, Ukrainians are being cut off from accessing markets to buy food, and farmers are reporting that they can no longer produce enough food — a situation that has a dramatic impact inside and outside Ukraine. The war in Ukraine is driving food insecurity inside the country, and this is a country that used to feed 400 million people around the world per year before February 2022. Right now, we know from our surveys that in 80 per cent of the settlements close to the front line, people face barriers in accessing food.”

    2023-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9483 (2023) · source