The conflict in neighboring Sudan has had an impact on the country's economy, increasing food prices and the number of vulnerable people in need of assistance.
An estimated 7.1 million people in South Sudan will remain food insecure during the lean season, which runs from April to July, while approximately 1.6 million children will remain at risk of malnutrition.
“Multiple shocks” loom
Aid workers will continue to work to ensure people no longer have to rely on aid, said Marie-Helene Verney, acting UN Humanitarian Coordinator for South Sudan, during the launch of the plan in the capital Juba on Tuesday.
“Unfortunately, for most people we expect multiple shocks, including the negative impact of climate change, which will continue to generate pressing needs next year,” he added.
Last year's humanitarian plan required $1.7 billion and is only 54 percent funded.
Eating healthy costs 4.3 percent more today than in 2020: FAO
Healthy eating costs more than four percent more than in 2020, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (fao) warned Wednesday in its annual Statistical Yearbook, which also highlights the impact of natural and man-made disasters on agriculture.
The FAO said the disasters correspond to average losses in agriculture of $123 billion per year, representing five percent of annual global agricultural production.
Although more than 870 million people worked in agriculture in 2021, representing 27 percent of the global workforce, this figure is well below the figure at the beginning of the century, when one billion people worked in agriculture. , the equivalent of 40 percent of the entire world. those who work.
The FAO Statistical Yearbook also revealed that almost 20 percent of food is lost in sub-Saharan Africa after harvest, the highest figure globally.
Europe leads the world in children with type 1 diabetes: WHO
Countries must do more to detect and prevent diabetes, particularly in Europe, which has the highest global burden of type 1 diabetes among adults and children.
This is according to the World Health Organization (WHO), which states that in Europe there are almost 300,000 children with type 1 diabetes.
The region also records the highest number of diagnoses of this disease each year, placing a huge burden on individuals, societies and health systems, including reduced quality of life, productivity losses and high treatment costs. .
The WHO noted that diabetes-related visual impairment is the most preventable cause of blindness among the European working-age population.
