{"id":81460,"date":"2021-10-28T09:28:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T13:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=81460"},"modified":"2021-10-28T09:28:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T13:28:46","slug":"afghanistan-is-at-the-precipice-more-than-half-of-its-people-now-face-famine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/blog\/2021\/10\/28\/afghanistan-is-at-the-precipice-more-than-half-of-its-people-now-face-famine\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan Is at \u201cthe Precipice;\u201d More Than Half of Its People Now Face Famine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The latest \u201cFood Security\u201d report<\/a> on Afghanistan released yesterday by the U.N.\u2019s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) raises the alarm that Afghanistan is becoming the largest humanitarian crisis in the world\u2014beyond even the horror of the famines in Yemen, Ethiopia, Syria, and South Sudan. The facts, maps, and descriptions included in that report make clear that mass death has begun, and that the U.S.-led Western financial sanctions are playing a major role in this catastrophe. This is genocide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The number of Afghanistan\u2019s people suffering \u201cacute food insecurity\u201d has risen, even after this season\u2019s harvest, from 14 million to 18.8 million people\u201447% of the nation\u2019s population. That\u2019s a 37% increase since the last assessment carried out by these agencies in April. The FAO and WFP now project that, come the November to March winter months, at least 22.8 million people\u2014more than half (55%) of Afghanistan\u2019s people\u2014will be starving to death. Be clear: \u201cacute food insecurity\u201d is not chronic hunger; it is defined as \u201cwhen a person\u2019s inability to consume adequate food puts their lives or livelihoods in immediate danger.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEconomic decline\u201d stemming from the imposition of international financial sanctions is identified right up front as a \u201ckey driver\u201d of this catastrophe, along with conflict and drought. \u201cIn the wake of Afghanistan\u2019s political transition and the consequent freezing of US$ 9.5 billion in national assets, the economy plummeted,\u201d the report acknowledges. \u201cThe banking system suffered severe disruption, and the national currency lost 12.5 percent of value, leading to high unemployment and food prices.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In large part because of the sanctions, \u201cfor the first time, urban residents are suffering from food insecurity at similar rates to rural communities\u2026. Across cities, towns and villages, virtually no family can afford sufficient food, according to recent WFP surveys,\u201d the World Food Program reported in a press release. \u201cRampant unemployment and a liquidity crisis are putting all major urban centers in danger of slipping into a Phase 4 emergency level of food insecurity, including formerly middle class populations,\u201d the report<\/a> finds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAfghanistan is now among the world\u2019s worst humanitarian crises\u2014if not the worst\u2014and food security has all but collapsed,\u201d WFP executive director David Beasley warned in releasing this report. \u201cThis winter, millions of Afghans will be forced to choose between migration and starvation unless we can step up our life-saving assistance, and unless the economy can be resuscitated\u2026. Hunger is rising and children are dying \u2026 the international community must come together to address this crisis, which is fast spinning out of control.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The WFP press release cites one of the authors of the report, Jean-Martin Bauer, on how one million Afghan children, right now, are in danger of dying of hunger. Bauer asserted that \u201cno one wants to see Afghan children die as a result of, you know, politics, essentially.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prove him right; join the Schiller Institute\u2019s international campaign to end the financial strangulation of Afghanistan, and sign and circulate its \u201cCall to Release the funds of the Afghan people<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest \u201cFood Security\u201d report on Afghanistan released yesterday by the U.N.\u2019s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) raises the alarm that Afghanistan is becoming the largest humanitarian crisis in the world\u2014beyond even the horror of the famines in Yemen, Ethiopia, Syria, and South Sudan. The facts, maps, and descriptions included […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":81462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[738,40,634,702,704],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-81460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-allgemein-el","category-healthcare","category-healthcare-updates-development","category-world-food-program","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81460","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81460"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81477,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81460\/revisions\/81477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}