Nearly 20 million people in Afghanistan are acutely food-insecure, including more than 6 million people on the brink of famine-like conditions in IPC Phase 4 (Emergency), according to WFP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
4 million people are acutely malnourished, including 3.2 million children under the age of five.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
28.3 million people \u2013 two-thirds of Afghanistan\u2019s population \u2013 require multi-sectoral humanitarian assistance in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The current food crisis is perpetuated by concurrent climate crisis, as 30 out of 34 provinces in Afghanistan report extremely low water quality. The proportion of households feeling the impact of drought in 2022 is six times greater than in 2020 as Afghanistan enters its third consecutive drought year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nearly 20 million people in Afghanistan are acutely food-insecure, including more than 6 million people on the brink of famine-like conditions in IPC Phase 4 (Emergency), according to WFP. 4 million people are acutely malnourished, including 3.2 million children under the age of five. 28.3 million people \u2013 two-thirds of Afghanistan\u2019s population \u2013 require multi-sectoral …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":88591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[43,295,412],"class_list":["post-88590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","tag-afghanistan","tag-food","tag-humanitarian"],"yoast_head":"\n