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  1. “However, movement restrictions continue to constrain humanitarian access. When the Council speaks, the world listens. Preventing conflict is the most effective means of preventing famine. Halting violence and insecurity not onlysaveslivesimmediately, butitopensupopportunities for immediate assistance, resilience-building, lasting development and, ultimately, locally owned pathways to peace and stability. It is essential that we act now to minimize all the potential calamities that I have just enumerated. We hope that we can accelerate taking action so that we minimize such risks in the future.”

    2022-09-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9133 (2022) · source

  2. “With the end of the rainy season in September, the violence is likely to experience a seasonal jump, disrupting food systems, limiting access to markets and creating new rounds of displacement. Approximately 4.14 million people were estimated to face acute food insecurity in the north-eastern states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe, with many in areas inaccessible to humanitarian assistance. In Yemen, the outlook on food insecurity is expected to be better than projected. Some assumptions for the projections were disproved, while the assumed ripple effects of the war in Ukraine on the international markets have not appeared. Additionally, funding for food assistance improved slightly, and major cuts in the number of beneficiaries were prevented. The conflict eased considerably after the parties agreed on a truce in April.”

    2022-09-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9133 (2022) · source

  3. “Together with the lingering impact of the prolonged conflict, severe macroeconomic challenges and significant livelihood losses, owing particularly to the widespread floods of the past four years and the insecurity caused by the frequent clashes, are driving dire levels of food insecurity. About 7.74 million people — almost two-thirds of the total population — are estimated to be facing IPC 3 or worse acute food insecurity during the lean season. In Leer county, where IPC 5, or famine-like conditions, were reported, armed clashes have continued to drive displacement in 2022. In northern Nigeria, the security situation continues to deteriorate, owing to escalating hostilities among non-State armed groups, criminality and intercommunal violence.”

    2022-09-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9133 (2022) · source

  4. “Together with the drought affecting southern areas, the resumption of hostilities in Tigray directly threatens the meher harvest in October. Last year, farmers in the region produced 900,000 tons of cereals during the meher season — the equivalent of seven to eight months of the region’s annual cereal requirements — which is far greater than the amount of food that entered the region through commercial or humanitarian sources. That underscores the potential critical impact of further disruptions to food production, especially if access remains constrained. Heightened and increasingly politicized intercommunal violence has been affecting South Sudan since 2020.”

    2022-09-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9133 (2022) · source

  5. “Approximately 19 million people are projected to face high acute food insecurity, notwithstanding a harvest similar to last year’s, and winter is fast approaching. Spiralling food, fuel, fertilizer and transportation costs resulting from the war in Ukraine are only compounding an already brutal situation. The country is largely agricultural, with 80 per cent of livelihoods dependent on agriculture. The sector has proved to be most resilient and offers enormous potential to expand food production, boost rural economies and drive economic recovery from the village level. Currently, there is no updated food security data for Ethiopia, but it is highly likely that the situation has deteriorated considerably in 2022.”

    2022-09-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9133 (2022) · source

  6. “Those conditions are expected to persist until at least March 2023, owing to decades of conflict, severe economic shocks and mass population displacement, on top of the failure of four consecutive rainy seasons, with an unprecedented fifth failed season forecast. In addition, several areas of central and southern Somalia face an increased risk of famine through at least December 2022. Those facing the famine risks are agropastoralists, and many are in areas where insecurity is hampering humanitarian access. In total, 300,000 people are expected to be in IPC 5 conditions between October and December. I should also draw the Council’s attention to Afghanistan, where the humanitarian situation remains highly fragile.”

    2022-09-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9133 (2022) · source

  7. “The consequences of COVID-19, which have had an impact through the slowdowns and downturns, and of the war in Ukraine, are having direct and indirect effects on those countries and are likely to worsen in the second half of 2022 and early 2023. Although it is not included in great detail in the white note, it is important to describe the dire situation in Somalia. Two weeks ago, the IPC Famine Review Committee concluded that without significant humanitarian assistance, agropastoral populations in two districts and displaced populations in the town of Baidoa in the Bay region will face famine between October and December 2022.”

    2022-09-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9133 (2022) · source

  8. “The Global Report on Food Crises 2022 Mid-Year Update was published on Monday, and it forecasts that through the end of this year, 205 million people will be facing the Cadre Harmonisé’s three highest phases of acute food insecurity, or Integrated Phase Classification (IPC) 3 or greater. That means they will be in need of urgent humanitarian assistance. That is higher than at any point in the seven-year history of the Global Report and represents an increase from 193 million people, reported in the 2022 edition of the Report, released in May. Without urgent humanitarian assistance, a record-breaking 970,000 people are expected to be facing IPC 5, or famine-like conditions, across five countries.”

    2022-09-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9133 (2022) · source

  9. “Conflicts also severely hamper humanitarian access to civilians. In the long term, they lead to the complete loss of livelihoods, supply-chain disruptions, mass displacement, increased pressure on limited resources and lower resilience. Conflicts also involve macroeconomic disruptions, increased public deficits and debts, reduced foreign exchange reserves, currency depreciation and growing inflation, all of which feed into diminished capacities for social protection and livelihood support. In addition, because of the slowdowns and downturns that we are facing today, countries, especially food-importing countries — and that is what most of the countries with food crises are — are challenged not only by high prices but because their currencies are being devalued.”

    2022-09-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9133 (2022) · source

  10. “Mr. Torero: I thank you, Madam President, for the invitation to brief the Security Council at this important meeting today. As Council members are aware and as Mr. Griffiths has just explained, hunger has been steadily increasing in recent years. That is driven by conflict, now also being exacerbated by the war in Ukraine; the impact of climate change; economic slowdowns, downturns and instability; and rising inequality, which has been exacerbated in the wake of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). And all of those have been aggravated by rapidly rising food prices. The link between armed conflict, food insecurity and famine endures. Conflict has immediate and lasting effects on every dimension of agrifood systems, reducing food production, destroying crops, disrupting markets and restricting access to food.”

    2022-09-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9133 (2022) · source