{"id":79596,"date":"2021-09-16T21:16:33","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T01:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=79596"},"modified":"2021-09-16T21:16:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T01:16:35","slug":"un-aid-conference-insists-act-now-or-afghanistan-will-truly-enter-the-abyss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/blog\/2021\/09\/16\/un-aid-conference-insists-act-now-or-afghanistan-will-truly-enter-the-abyss\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Aid Conference Insists, Act Now, or Afghanistan «Will Truly Enter the Abyss»"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sept. 14, 2021 (EIRNS)\u2014The Sept. 13, United Nations conference in Geneva on aid to Afghanistan succeeded in raising $1.1 billion, beyond the original target of $606 million. But given the dramatic reports by speakers on the dire humanitarian crisis and the urgent need for food and medicine to avert imminent starvation of tens of millions of people, the $1.1 billion won\u2019t suffice. The situation is so fragile that 1 million children are at immediate risk of starvation if their immediate needs are not met, the New York Times<\/em> reported Sept. 13. \u201cAt least 10 million children depend on humanitarian aid just to survive,\u201d UNICEF\u2019s executive director Henrietta H. Fore told the Times*. The World Food Program (WFP) estimates that 40% of Afghanistan\u2019s crop has been lost this year, and the prices of basic food items are soaring. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is taking steps to help farmers so that they don\u2019t miss the upcoming winter wheat planting season, and to keep life-sustaining farm animals alive, but the situation has been complicated by a severe drought. Over half of an average Afghan\u2019s daily caloric intake comes from wheat, most of which is domestically grown, FAO director general Qu Dongyu, told the meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

World Food Program director David Beasley starkly warned that \u201c14 million people\u20141 in 3\u2014are marching to the brink of starvation\u2026. On top of that, you have 14 million people in IPC2\u201d\u2014a category of acute food insecurity\u2014\u201cthat are knocking on the same door, so if we\u2019re not very careful, we could truly enter the abyss and see catastrophic conditions, worse than what we see now.\u201d WFP estimates that 40% of Afghanistan\u2019s crops have been lost for this year; the price of wheat rose by 25%, and the price of flour has doubled at local markets. Beasley stressed that a major concern is that 4 million people live in hard-to-reach areas, for whom, if food isn\u2019t prepositioned before winter, \u201cwe will face a catastrophe. The time is now. We can\u2019t wait six months. We need the funds immediately so we can move the supplies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like other speakers, Beasley also warned, \u201cif we\u2019re not careful, and we\u2019re not strategic, we could face mass migration, destabilization in the region, and for certain starvation for millions of Afghan people.\u201d Beasley\u2019s full remarks can be found here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Making the same point, Gennady Gatilov, Russia\u2019s permanent representative to the Geneva UN office, stressed that \u201cKabul\u2019s traditional Western sponsors must provide active help to the country\u2019s population to reduce or stop migration flows,\u201d according to TASS<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sept. 14, 2021 (EIRNS)\u2014The Sept. 13, United Nations conference in Geneva on aid to Afghanistan succeeded in raising $1.1 billion, beyond the original target of $606 million. But given the dramatic reports by speakers on the dire humanitarian crisis and the urgent need for food and medicine to avert imminent starvation of tens of millions of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":79597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[738,667,520,505,639,702,742,704],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-79596","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-sanctions","category-world-food-program","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79608,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79596\/revisions\/79608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}