{"id":9702,"date":"2022-02-17T22:39:28","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T22:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=9702"},"modified":"2022-02-23T11:09:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T11:09:32","slug":"fao-welcomes-a-e20-million-contribution-from-germany-to-avert-hunger-crisis-in-the-hoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2022\/02\/17\/fao-welcomes-a-e20-million-contribution-from-germany-to-avert-hunger-crisis-in-the-hoa\/","title":{"rendered":"FAO welcomes a \u20ac20 million contribution from Germany to avert hunger crisis in HoA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rome<\/strong>\u00a0– The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today welcomed a \u20ac20\u00a0million contribution from Germany to save lives and livelihoods of the most severely drought-affected farmers and herders in the Horn of Africa. It is a vital contribution which comes at a critical time in the response to the drought emergency.<\/p>\n

An extended, multi-season drought is driving acute food insecurity across the region, with 12 to 14\u00a0million people now on the brink of starvation as crops continue to wither and animals weaken.\u00a0 The situation is further exacerbated by escalating resource-based conflicts as competition for water and pasturelands increases, the COVID-19 pandemic and lingering consequences of a large-scale locust invasion.<\/p>\n

FAO and its partners have recently warned that in a worst-case scenario in which rains completely fail in the coming months and agricultural-dependent communities do not receive swift aid, the number of highly food insecure people could climb to 15 to 20 million \u2013 with some worst-affected households facing \u201ccatastrophic\u201d hunger conditions.<\/p>\n

Germany\u2019s support represents a significant contribution to FAO\u2019s Horn of Africa Drought Response Plan calling for over $138 million to help rural communities cope with the looming crisis \u2013 with $130\u00a0million of that total urgently needed immediately for activities between now and June.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would like to thank the Government of Germany for the generous contribution, which will help provide efficient and effective assistance to highly-vulnerable, agriculture-reliant communities in the most impacted areas,\u201d said FAO Director-General QU Dongyu.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoosting agriculture and sustaining rural livelihoods is the most impactful way of averting a large-scale food security crisis. The current funding gap is still substantially hampering our efforts to provide immediate and adequate life-saving and livelihood support to those who need it most. It is not too late to avert a humanitarian catastrophe in 2022, but resources must be made available immediately,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Time-critical drought response<\/strong><\/p>\n

With the new funding, FAO will support more than 115\u00a0000\u00a0vulnerable rural households in three most drought affected countries – Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia. The aim is to provide access to food and other basic goods and services including water for animals and irrigation, veterinary services and education, while protecting and restoring productive livelihoods and building back self-reliance in drought affected communities.<\/p>\n

More specifically, in Ethiopia, FAO will support 65\u00a0000 households through providing livestock vaccines, construction of 30 veterinary health clinics, rehabilitation of water points, and implementing slaughter destocking.<\/p>\n

In Kenya, 35\u00a0000 households will receive veterinary care to sustain their animals and highly nutritious range cubes to feed livestock, which enable animals to continue to provide milk, as a source of food and income for communities. In addition, FAO will carry out cash transfers to ensure the most vulnerable can access basic foods and services.<\/p>\n

In Somalia, the Organization will assist more than 16 500 households through cash transfers and cash-for-work programmes. The funds will be used to distribute fodder packages, drought-resistant seeds, which will be complemented with irrigation support.<\/p>\n

FAO\u2019s plan to avert hunger crisis<\/strong><\/p>\n

Under FAO\u2019s\u202fnew Horn of Africa Drought Response Plan, $130 million\u202fis\u202furgently needed to provide time-critical assistance to 1.5 million\u202fhighly vulnerable people in communities within drought-hit regions of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia.\u202fThe plan supports the production of up to 90 million litres of milk and up to 40 000 tonnes of staple food crops in the first part of 2022.<\/p>\n

Source: FAO\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Origin: View original<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rome\u00a0– The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today welcomed a \u20ac20\u00a0million contribution from Germany to save lives and livelihoods of the most severely drought-affected farmers and herders in the Horn of Africa. It is a vital contribution which comes at a critical time in the response to the drought emergency. An …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-food-security-cluster","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9702"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9719,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9702\/revisions\/9719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}