Cost of feeding hungry world surging due to conflicts and instability – UN agency

20 July 2017 – http://www.un.org/apps/news/st...D=57218#.WXDY6VGQyM8

20 July 2017 – Improved aid access, strengthened resilience and advances in food system networks could provide as much as $3.5 billion in annual cost savings at a time when humanitarian needs are skyrocketing in multiple complex emergencies across the globe, a new United Nations study has found.

“More than anything else, the world needs to wake up, and end these wars and these conflicts, so we can make real progress in ending hunger,” said David Beasley, the Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme in a news release today.

“Around 800 million people – one in nine around the world – go to bed on an empty stomach. But man-made conflicts and other strife make it difficult to help those who need it most. Reducing these roadblocks would ease the path towards long-term solutions.”

In its report, World Food Assistance 2017: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead, WFP notes that its costs spiked by more than 140 per cent over a seven-year period – from $2.2 billion in 2009 to $5.3 billion in 2015.

The need for additional resources come amid significant changes to the international food assistance sector since 2009.

Within WFP, the share of assistance delivered as food declined from 54 per cent to less than 40 per cent. Conversely, the share of cash-based transfers surged from less than 1 per cent in 2009 to 20 per cent in 2016.

In this scenario, the WFP report argues that improvements such as more accessible and safe humanitarian access could reduce costs by almost $1 billion each year.

Furthermore, if the roughly 80 countries where the UN agency operates were better able to cope with climate-related, political, and economic shocks, another $2.2 billion annually could be saved.

And if food systems – the networks responsible for producing food, transforming it and ensuring that it reaches hungry people – could be improved in these countries, another $440 million could be saved annually.

“If solutions or improvements to these challenges were found, cost savings to WFP could be as high as US$3.5 billion per year,” noted the UN agency.

sympathies for those ppl. when they get the opportunity to come to the west, they simply milk the system. Canada probably will end up an impoverished country in 50 years. With all the refugees they taking in AND NONE OF THEM WANT TO WORK. Many are on welfare. The Syrians has the Federal government giving them everything. One single mother(Syrian) complaining she has 8 children and the housing given to her has only 3 bedrrooms. Trudeau doing some crazy things. 

seignet posted:

Canada probably will end up an impoverished country in 50 years. With all the refugees they taking in AND NONE OF THEM WANT TO WORK. Many are on welfare.

Incorrect.

Really! Tell me how many yuh tried to employ?

Last statement ==> Irrelevant, as usual.

First statement ==> Really and correct.

seignet posted:

sympathies for those ppl. when they get the opportunity to come to the west, they simply milk the system. Canada probably will end up an impoverished country in 50 years. With all the refugees they taking in AND NONE OF THEM WANT TO WORK. Many are on welfare. The Syrians has the Federal government giving them everything. One single mother(Syrian) complaining she has 8 children and the housing given to her has only 3 bedrrooms. Trudeau doing some crazy things. 

There is nothing wrong with aiding the unfortunate as long as your own citizens are taken care of first. I wonder how many rooms she had in Syria. A couple of banking stories. 1. Russian lady, 3 kids, divorced, not working, complained that the apartment she had was too small. Welfare rented her the upper flat in a private house. In summer, her kids went to day camp. Picked up and dropped off by charter buses. And who pays? The taxpayers. 2. Retired Soviet Army Veteran. Just off the plane is advised by an organization that helps Russian immigrants settle not to keep his Social Security in his bank account. Every month like clockwork he would call to see when the check was in so he could withdraw the funds. Shortly after coming here he had hip replacement surgery paid for by the taxpayers. His wife has alzheimers and has full time attendants. Paid for by.....

America alone spends more on humanitarian aid to feed the poor around the world each year. Plus, many NGOs also contributed generously to world hunger.

Demerara_Guy posted:

Last statement ==> Irrelevant, as usual.

First statement ==> Really and correct.

Yuh nah gat nuttig bettah to duh.

Displaced Persons/ Refugees of the past worked and built. You and I enjoying the fruits of their labour. Dem lazy skonts dem bringing here now, living off of u and i labour. The future for the next generations dem eating out like a plague. Come to think of it, it is a plague, pulling down good to their barbaric existence.