A major food crisis

[Mister D]

How is that not what we have become?

Um...you realize by corporations they don't mean entities like Exxon-Mobil, right? They don't mean Goldman-Sachs either. We are not a corporate society and are probably the furthest thing from it in existence at this time.

[Captain Obvious]

And the same thing could happen in the United States, since Obama refuses to impose a travel ban.

You're hysterical.

Go lock yourself in the basement for 6 months, you're a threat to society.

Take a couple hundred cases of bottled water, Chef-boy-ar-dee and a can opener with you.

And a box of kleenex.

[waltky]

Starvation and famine cause largest humanitarian crisis since 1945...

UN says world faces largest humanitarian crisis since 1945
Mar 10,`17: The world faces the largest humanitarian crisis since the United Nations was founded in 1945 with more than 20 million people in four countries facing starvation and famine, the U.N. humanitarian chief said Friday.

Stephen O'Brien told the U.N. Security Council that "without collective and coordinated global efforts, people will simply starve to death" and "many more will suffer and die from disease." He urged an immediate injection of funds for Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia and northeast Nigeria plus safe and unimpeded access for humanitarian aid "to avert a catastrophe." "To be precise," O'Brien said, "we need $4.4 billion by July." Without a major infusion of money, he said, children will be stunted by severe malnutrition and won't be able to go to school, gains in economic development will be reversed and "livelihoods, futures and hope will be lost."

U.N. and food organizations define famine as when more than 30 percent of children under age 5 suffer from acute malnutrition and mortality rates are two or more deaths per 10,000 people every day, among other criteria. "Already at the beginning of the year we are facing the largest humanitarian crisis since the creation of the United Nations," O'Brien said. "Now, more than 20 million people across four countries face starvation and famine." O'Brien said the largest humanitarian crisis is in Yemen where two-thirds of the population - 18.8 million people - need aid and more than seven million people are hungry and don't know where their next meal will come from. "That is three million people more than in January," he said.

The Arab world's poorest nation is engulfed in conflict and O'Brien said more than 48,000 people fled fighting just in the past two months. During his recent visit to Yemen, O'Brien said he met senior leaders of the government and the Shiite Houthi rebels who control the capital Sanaa, and all promised access for aid. "Yet all parties to the conflict are arbitrarily denying sustained humanitarian access and politicize aid," he said, warning if that behavior doesn't change now "they must be held accountable for the inevitable famine, unnecessary deaths and associated amplification in suffering that will follow."

For 2017, O'Brien said $2.1 billion is needed to reach 12 million Yemenis "with life-saving assistance and protection" but only 6 percent has been received so far. He announced that Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will chair a pledging conference for Yemen on April 25 in Geneva. The U.N. humanitarian chief also visited South Sudan, the world's newest nation which has been ravaged by a three-year civil war, and said "the situation is worse than it has ever been." "The famine in South Sudan is man-made," he said. "Parties to the conflict are parties to the famine - as are those not intervening to make the violence stop." O'Brien said more than 7.5 million people need aid, up by 1.4 million from last year, and about 3.4 million South Sudanese are displaced by fighting including almost 200,000 who have fled the country since January.

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[waltky]

Famine ebbs in So. Sudan...

South Sudan no longer in famine
Wed, 21 Jun 2017 : More than a million people are still facing emergency levels of hunger, one step below famine.

South Sudan is no longer classified as being in famine following an increase in aid, a UN-backed report says. However, the report warns that the situation remains desperate as the number of people at risk of starvation has increased in the last month. The famine, announced in February, was the first be declared anywhere in the world since 2011. Armed conflict, low harvests and soaring food prices have been blamed for the situation. Tens of thousands of people have died and millions displaced since fighting erupted in the country more than three years ago.

Three women carry a sack of food distributed on March 4, 2017, in Ganyiel, Panyijiar county, in South Sudan. South Sudan was declared the site of the world"s first famine in six years, affecting about 100,000 people.

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report says that 1.7 million people are still facing emergency levels of hunger, one step below famine. The IPC adds that the number at risk of starvation has increased to six million, up from 5.5 million last month. The United Nations says the world is facing its biggest humanitarian crisis since the end of World War Two, with a total of nearly 20 million people facing starvation in north-east Nigeria, Somalia and Yemen, as well as South Sudan.

Help still needed: James Copnall, BBC News

Bags of sorghum have been airdropped into some of the most remote parts of the country, medical aid provided in temporary clinics far from recognised hospitals, pressure has been exerted on the government to allow this vital help to reach those in need. It has worked. Today, the UN and South Sudanese officials have announced that conditions in the two affected counties no longer meet the technical definition of a famine.

One risk now is that funding for humanitarian aid slows down, if donors believe that the worst is now over. That's one reason the UN is so keen to stress that people are still in desperate need of help. Six million people throughout the country still struggle to find food every day - the highest ever total in South Sudan. All this largely man-made suffering will continue as long as the civil war rumbles on.

When is a famine declared?

The Integrated Phase Classification (IPC) system classes a famine as:

* At least 20% of the population has access to fewer than 2,100 kilocalories of food a day
* Acute malnutrition in more than 30% of children
* Two deaths per 10,000 people, or four child deaths per 10,000 children every day

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-40352926

[Ivan88]

The US germ warfare gurus will keep on trying to have an Ebola epidemic.
They are committed to de-population.

In the case of Somalia, the US spent around 300 million $s to destroy food production, distribution and storage facilities.
This was followed by a famine.

[Common Sense]

Lol...

[donttread]

A major food crisis in West Africa. As people flee or hid from the virus, the economy will come to a halt. To include farming. No food = famine.



A quarantine combined with famine could speed up the process of the Ebola virus burning itself out.

Doesn't it make you wonder how in this day and age so much of the world can't even feed themselves

[Peter1469]

Doesn't it make you wonder how in this day and age so much of the world can't even feed themselves

The vast majority is caused by corrupt governments. One need not wonder over the problem at all.

[Dr. Who]

This is a terrible humanitarian crisis. People and in particular the most susceptible, children, will die off in droves both from lack of food and disease because they don't have the strength to combat bacteria and viruses. Just amping up food distribution to these regions would save thousands, if not millions of lives. We waste so much food in the west.

[Peter1469]

This is a terrible humanitarian crisis. People and in particular the most susceptible, children, will die off in droves both from lack of food and disease because they don't have the strength to combat bacteria and viruses. Just amping up food distribution to these regions would save thousands, if not millions of lives. We waste so much food in the west.

Except the corrupt governments steal the food.