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Soaring Global Wheat Prices Increase Hunger For Millions Of Afghans; WFP Asks For US$77 Million
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Government
of
Afghanistan today urged the international community to fund a sharp
increase in needed food assistance for the poor of Afghanistan who cannot
afford to pay soaring local prices for wheat, a staple of the Afghan diet.
Under the "Joint Government/UN Appeal on the Humanitarian Consequences of
the Rise in Food Prices," and in addition to its already extensive
programmes of food assistance across Afghanistan, WFP has asked for
immediate contributions of US$77 million to supply 89,000 tonnes of food
to
assist an additional 2.55 million Afghan people, living in both rural and
urban areas, through June 2008.
"Afghanistan faces so many hardships - and now global increases in the
price of wheat mean that bread, the basic staple of the Afghan diet, is
out
of reach for millions of Afghans," said Rick Corsino, WFP Country Director
in Afghanistan.
"We must act now to keep wheat and bread affordable for Afghanis living in
both cities and rural areas where domestic production is not enough to
satisfy needs," Corsino added.
Global food prices, particularly of wheat, have risen to all-time highs in
the last 12 months, and have adversely affected millions of Afghans, for
whom wheat flour is the food staple used in making bread.
A recent Afghan Government and WFP analysis of the impact of higher prices
on food accessibility revealed that wheat flour prices have increased
dramatically in the past year, over 60 percent higher nationwide, and as
high as 80 percent in some locations.
A total of 2.55 million (1.41 million in rural areas and 1.41 million in
urban and semi-urban areas) Afghans may have fallen into the category of
high food insecurity (from borderline food insecurity) owing to the prices
rises. This has placed those already vulnerable at risk of sliding deeper
into food insecurity.
"Food poverty is now a real threat, not just in the remote regions of this
country, but now also in Afghanistan's urban areas," said Corsino, adding
that the international community needed to renew its efforts to help the
people through this very difficult time. He said WFP would be extending
its food interventions into urban areas.
The planned WFP intervention seeks to provide family food rations
to
235,000 households in rural areas and 190,000 urban households
most
affected by the rise in food prices and not presently supported
through
ongoing WFP interventions.
The food assistance, which will help these households maintain what
assets
they have, will include the provision, from February to June 2008,
of
43,000 tonnes of assorted commodities in rural areas; and 46,000 tonnes
of
wheat in urban and semi-urban areas. The joint Government/UN Appeal
also
includes interventions by UNICEF, WHO and other UN agencies working
in
Afghanistan.
The 89,000 tons of food required in the joint Government/UN Appeal
launched
today is on top of the 180,000 tons of food that WFP plans to distribute
in
2008 for nearly 3.7 million.
Donors to WFP's current three-year US$380 million relief and recovery
operation in Afghanistan include the United States (US$141.7 million), the
UN Central Emergency Response Fund (US$29.1 million - for CERF see:
http://ochaonline.un.org), India (US$24.5 million), Canada (US$17.1
million), Japan (US$12.3 million), the Netherlands (US$8 million), Italy
US$5 million), Switzerland (US$4.4 million), Germany (US$3.6 million), the
Russian Federation (US$3 million), the European Commission (US$2.8
million), Luxembourg (US$2.1 million, Saudi Arabia (US$2 million), France
US$1.9 million), Belgium (US$1.6 million), Australia (US$1 million),
Sweden
(US$1 million), Spain (US$800,000), Poland (US$700,000), Ireland
(US$700,000), Finland (US$700,000), Lithuania (US$400,000), Denmark
(US$300,000), Norway (US$200,000), the Faroe Islands (US$200,000), Qatar
(US$100,000), Iceland (US$100,000)and the United Kingdom (US$25,000). A
further US$2.1 million was received in multilateral donations and private
donors contributed US$300,000.
United Nations World Food Programme
Planare globale de grâu creºte preþurile foamei pentru milioane de afgani; WFP cere 77 de milioane de dolari SUA - Soaring Global Wheat Prices Increase Hunger For Millions Of Afghans; WFP Asks For US$77 Million - articole medicale engleza - startsanatate