As the U.S. and Western Europe are embroiled in a sciamachy of “Russia is the enemy,” others are focused on the persistent crisis in Afghanistan. The World Food Programme (WFP) Afghanistan Situation Report of March 2, 2022, reported the following:
22.8 million people – half of the population – are projected to be acutely food insecure in 2022, including 8.7 million at risk of famine-like conditions while more than 24.4 million people are in need of humanitarian support
4.7 million children, and pregnant and lactating women are at risk of acute malnutrition in 2022.
All 34 provinces are facing crisis or emergency levels of acute food insecurity.
Two-thirds of the population are now resorting to crisis-level coping strategies to feed their families. This is an 8% increase from December and a staggering sixfold increase since August 2021, according to WFP’s latest Food Security Update for Afghanistan. Crisis and emergency coping strategies include the sale of organs and children.
