{"id":81525,"date":"2021-10-31T21:47:54","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T01:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=81525"},"modified":"2021-10-31T21:47:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T01:47:56","slug":"un-official-warns-of-economic-collapse-and-food-insecurity-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/blog\/2021\/10\/31\/un-official-warns-of-economic-collapse-and-food-insecurity-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Official Warns of Economic Collapse and Food Insecurity in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oct. 30 (EIRNS)&#8211;In New York, UN humanitarian affairs chief Martin Griffiths told <em>The Associated Press<\/em> in an interview that the G20 leaders should worry about Afghanistan because its economy is collapsing and half the population risks not having enough food to eat as the snows have already started to fall. Half the Afghan children under age five are at risk of acute malnutrition and there is an outbreak of measles in every single province which is \u00aba red light\u00bb and \u00abthe canary in the mine\u00bb for what\u2019s happening in society, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Griffiths warned that food insecurity leads to malnutrition, then disease and death, and \u00ababsent corrective action\u00bb the world will be seeing deaths in Afghanistan. He said the World Food Program is feeding 4 million people in Afghanistan now, but the U.N. predicts that because of the dire winter conditions and the economic collapse it is going to have to provide food to triple that number &#8212; 12 million Afghans &#8212; \u00aband that\u2019s massive.\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00abSo, the message that I would give to the leaders of the G 20 is worry about economic collapse in Afghanistan, because economic collapse in Afghanistan will, of course, have an exponential effect on the region,\u00bb he said. \u00abAnd the specific issue that I would ask them to focus on first, is the issue of getting cash into the economy in Afghanistan &#8212; not into the hands of the Taliban &#8212; into the hands of the people whose access to their own bank accounts is not frozen.\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oct. 30 (EIRNS)&#8211;In New York, UN humanitarian affairs chief Martin Griffiths told The Associated Press in an interview that the G20 leaders should worry about Afghanistan because its economy is collapsing and half the population risks not having enough food to eat as the snows have already started to fall. Half the Afghan children under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":81526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[738,667,520,505,639,702,33],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-81525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-agriculture","category-updates-development","category-updates","category-global-diplomacy","category-healthcare-updates-development","category-updates-war","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81536,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81525\/revisions\/81536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}