an overflowing river j jillions how she humble. it's a similar situation in china where some southern provinces are flooded in the wake of typhoon chapa genomic. when you state media broadcast, dramatic video of a rescue or at sailing across the flood waters, to rescue a woman trapped in her car, homes, farm, land, roads, and power lines have been damaged. so i, she goes to school. there are more than 40 houses in the area, the worst affected her aquaculture farmers as they need electricity to supply their animals. with oxygen, we deployed repair crews to restore power to the effected facilities. as soon as the rain stopped wides. so chair, heavy, rain and floods, aunt unusual in the region at this time of the year. the typhoon season generally lasts from may to october. but with a climate crisis causing more extreme weather patterns, seems like this could become

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4 people are hungry today than ever before, and the un warms the numbers are growing rapidly. billions of dollars are needed to prevent a global food crisis, but what's causing it? and can we do something before it's too late? this is inside story. ah. i want the program. i'm still robin demons. latest report on global hunger shows, we're moving backwards at least 828000000 people went hungry, one way or another on a daily basis. last year war natural disasters and rising temperatures are threatening food security. the prices of wheat and other crops have increased exponentially and will continue to do so. in the horn of africa, the severe drought is exacerbating the situation. so let's take

a look at the key findings in that un report. nearly 830000000 people around the world went hungry. in 2021 that's up nearly 50000000 the year before and 150000000 more than 2019. the gender gap has also widened nearly 32 percent of women. a moderately or severely food insecure in 2021 compared to more than 27 percent of men. and around 45000000 children, younger than fives of a to wasting which is the deadliest form of malnutrition and increase is a charles risk of death by up to 12 times caraway. tarzan is to kenya's watch a county to give us some insight into how communities are coping. oh security officers make it clear. anyone trying to jump the queue won't be helped. people here are waiting for cash payouts from king us government money to help them cope

with rising food prices and a recurring drought. how much they receive depends on how vulnerable the families are. early on that at the minor pallana was the hood of all, my animals have died because of the druids. i have nothing left at home to eat. according to the you, in millions of people in east africa are facing food shortages. the drought stretches far beyond pena, parts of ethiopia and somalia have also been effected even of his dogs raining significantly and people planned crops. it'll be months before they can harvest anything. climate change is expected to increase the frequency and severity of droughts as rivers run dry. people at the sharp rally are traveling increasingly long distances in search of water lanka. hank, okay, i've been walking for days with my animals. i finally found some water this side on, but it's not enough. the government has suspended import duties and levies on mays as well as animal feed to cushion canyons when the rising cost of living. but many

are still desperate. it is very hard to say. as mothers or of families made to make the ran out or food, or out of mills for almost a day or 2 days. oh so trish away or others? sometimes event reported our death gears do tour as hunger does allude, have been reported. saw the situation is very bad. community elders are worried. they say people have started fighting over dwindling resources and dr. ha, my son was looking after the camel's. 4 months ago, some men shot and killed him. then they saw all the animals. so people in northern kenya savings, a house in livestock, a man without animals can not to provide drought, can wipe out a family's fortunes, and it can take years to recover to making sure they heard stay alive is a priority. had a matessa algebra. what j county king ah, let's bring in my guess for this edition of inside story in amsterdam mills molena,

a policy advisor on climate justice to action aid in the netherlands. and in the french city of niece is up the reza of a son, a food market, and less than former senior economist that the food and agriculture organisation of i will welcome to you gentlemen, on this edition of inside story nelson. i just begin with you in amsterdam. i mean, we see reports and press releases about food, poverty, and food, hunger all the time. what so different about this report coming out at this particular moment in time? i think the simple answer is that there's an increase that's just astronomical. we've seen that countries haven't been able to recover from cove it and then conflicts have come along. and we're also starting to see the genuine impacts of climate on the food systems. it's exposing just how vulnerable bud, the global food systems are to ah, to the shocks, to the system that we simply aren't able to remedy with,

with our current boot system. or as a addison in nice me, what do you think can come out of this particular report on this? and this press conference for it, because some eminent names are actually on the list. in terms of the presentations, you are the director general of the f o, an organization that you were connected with. we've got the president of i fad, we've got unicef, the well food program, the w h o. it's a who's who really trying to get the world to focus on. the real problem was very unfortunate, isn't it? because it's been many years the international organizations led by f you and other . ready conditions, particular dealing with the food, but food systems are warning that you're not really doing what they're supposed to be doing to reduce hunger analysis. and in fact, one thing about this support, which makes it even more sad, is that the numbers the statistics to pursue, predates the war, we know crane and all the problems of the start of this year. it reflects back on

the developments in 2021 and before and already we had failed. and in fact, prices of food, as you know, had been rising even before the war. so we are in a situation which i think there is no other, but it's done to call it a crisis and it's not just in the food sector or calling just mention when the climate side political side. so really we are in trouble and i think it is, it is not, i mean it's good that they all came together and they're pledging again for, for global efforts. but honestly, something fundamental has to happen, or else we are into much, much deeper problems in the future. and of course you've touched on one of those big issues of it's ukraine mills and we come back to you. of course, we can't blame everything. what's happened really in the recent sort of russia war on ukraine. but we were coming out of a pandemic. we saw the problems you might say within 2 years. but the last sort of 10 years has not been an easy time globally in terms of the way the climate is also

impacted on all of this. that's entirely correct. ah, we've seen that droughts have increased. we've seen extreme weather increases. we've seen numerous firms of climate catastrophe happen across the globe, mostly in the global south, mostly impacting women. ah, and as a result, what we've also seen is that local food, ah, markets, local food production has been just heavily, heavily hit. and when you bring in the ukraine crisis, we've seen how the lack of grain, the way we use our produce the fact that much of it is produced for biofuels. the fact that much of it is produced purely for animal feed, that we're not. and it's, it's just exposing the vulnerabilities of it, the fact that one war can break out in eastern europe and have ripple effects all across africa, all across the global south is simply shocking when we've also, for the last 10 years, been investing in development and other ah, other processes,

however, the way we're doing that has made countries are like kenya, countries in the horn of africa. extremely dependent on, on, on, on the global north, which is just essentially meant that they aren't able to produce for their own markets. local food prices in these countries have been on the rise for a long time because much of the fertile ground is being used to produce non food agricultural products that are then being shipped out of the country. ah, and leaving very limited space for local food production. indeed in a new business, that's sort of the subject of it right here. and now of the residents talk about sort of one of the issues in the report that's being highlighted. and that seems to be this dramatic jump in figures after 2015. and 11 does what the driving force was because it says that after many relatively unchanged in 2015, the proportion of people affected by hunger jumped in 2020 and continue to rise in

2021 to 9.8 percent of world population compared to 8 percent in 2019 and 9.3 percent in 20. 20 lots of figures here. but what was the driving force? what happened in 2015, that, that, that made it jump so quickly because we didn't have the ukraine war going on, or we didn't have a pandemic? you know, we had the serious crisis with food prices back in 2008, 2012 period to some extent at that time you know, a lot of issues low in lot of countries and so forth. but we never really came out of that problem and the probably contained it to safety nets through trade and also agriculture which responded to the demand and production increases. but in effect, the deferment hunger and crisis lot of hot spots. joe political issues were

all there. they really didn't disappear and i think what happened is that after we, we've kind of finished with the that crisis period. we started, are you still collecting statistics and numbers and you see, oh wow. things are really terrible or still. and in fact, one could say today, we probably never recovered. and from 2015 onwards, we see relation of hunger and all the problems that we saw multiple crop failures in many parts of the world happening in also the last 70 years. and then you have, we have now almost 3 years of cobit again, you would not been able to see the implications of coal with exactly what was happening is afterwards the, the statistics tells us what happened. we knew we knew that would be a disaster. we knew that many countries would not be able to cope with it, but, you know, and the warnings were made and today be pushing to utilize that. the predictions were correct. and as it is now that you know many,

many analysts are warning about the future being much worse than was assumed before . simply because this war and all the options in trade. this is not something probably today again be get the feel of it because of the price response and so for . but there's more than prices. people's consult is at stake. the they cannot afford the, they will be eating less. they will meeting poorer food and all of this things is going to come and hunt us back. perhaps in we know in a year or 2 short was not going. unfortunately, if i can just look at it in more detail and with nails, because you know, we're talking about again from this press race, 927000000 people, 11.7 percent of the global population face food insecurity at an insecure levels. so we talk about the pandemic, we talk about people saying, hey, we talk about production not being up to its maximum potential. are we now talking about scaling up production or to pre pandemic levels?

because there is the problem, is that the workforce nails is not there an ad to that the problems with the climate. so we'll talk about climate in a moment. but let's talk about workforce because you need people to, to pick the food or to collect it from the fields. and that's the big issue for many countries. i think for, for many countries, i'm sure that is one of the issues. but i think fundamentally we, when we look at the food system, we've made it heavily industrialized, we produce significantly more and more significantly, more land than that we actually need to, to be able to feed the world's population. it's the structure that we've built this on. it's the way we use food, it's the fact that we're using it for biases. the fact that we're wasting a great deal of this production which and it's, it's easy to fall into figures and markets and that kind of thing. i want to bring it back also to, to the humanitarian side of things where you see families that are able,

that would theoretically be able to produce their own food, not able to because they don't have access to land. we see families now pulling kids out of schools to try to make, make enough money to afford these are these new increased prices which are just astronomical. so it's not as simple as saying we need to increase production to match this ah, to, to pre panoramic levels. it's about re adjusting the system in such a way that it is sustainable and that it actually works. ok, let me just bring in here in nairobi another guess the with joining us on inside story, morris or younger, is the regional head of disaster risk management plan international. we saw young. oh, good. have you with us from nairobi. obviously, africa is always africa's always a focal point when we start talking about food insecurity, all and the, and the, and the reasons for it, the drought or conflict. how is the problem been exacerbated these last few years

to the position that you see right now? i'm it does, it does. it has really, really gotten was because what we are we missing across the continent is 4 consecutive failures in terms of rain. so we are seeing a situation where a strong could be shown cannot re rejuvenate very quickly in the past. that broadside close used to be every 10. yes. but what we are missing implicitly, drought conditions of every 2 years. sometimes even every, every one year. and all these being assessable by drive us like climate change, we are seeing this is going to be security driven by conflict. so it's really gotten lost in the last few. yes, you're very close to one of those conflict areas. we saw the issue of

t grier being a high new story these last 12 months in ethiopia. we've seen in food insecurity in those areas. and in that, with within that part of the hold of africa, how much of a problem is conflict continuing to be? we see it in somalia with eating the don issues in this the hell region are all contributing to people having to move to migrate to find food and it's becoming more and more difficult the national suffering government to actually cater for that migration of people. yeah. that conflict is, is, is a major driver, but we should not forget the fact that climate is climate change is also significant. but at least all of these are lean because in i'll give you the example in us release conditions where that us, that the more us just strains, the more it becomes cause conflicts that are, that also get to get,

get higher. so you are seeing the fusion, well the people fighting of us has passed just because what the conditions because communities moved from one area where there's no water into an area. busy or they think that is more water, and that causes a little conflict in some of these communities because of scarcity in those areas. and that tells you that it's not dest country bit drive, but is something bigger. the driver is its climate induced requirement and the drivers things to do with climate change. so it's something bigger. we can focus on that now with the reza in nice because in recent weeks we've seen eastern india and northern bangladesh have a deluge of rain. the environment is being blamed or climate change is being blamed . but the actually is an example of how quickly people's lives change within a matter of days and how it last that we're still seeing now there are areas

flooded. patty feels inundated and it's going to take years, decades to get that into a recoverable position. yeah, i mean the issue is that the climate change and all these erratic weather situations that you're facing is serious problem. and you know, that is evident and i think it's not strange for anybody. but one thing that we was also concentrate and think about this is not all about food supply is about livelihood and is about, you know, people being able to actually purchase food. and that is the other problem that we haven't been able to resolve people's purchasing power is diminishing, they're getting poorer, therefore the less. and this also has to be addressed. and in fact, one of the drivers going back to your earlier question, why hunger was rising from 2015 wasn't so much the food wasn't available or supplies were trained, they were not. and in fact, even today,

production has reached pre koby level for some of the major cereals he probably are on a per capita level, but this population also increases. you would have expected, let's say perhaps, but use more or as our colleague just mention, use less for industrial use like a journal or animal feed and diverted to food world. those things are possibility. but honestly, that is not the big problem today. and perhaps the next few years, the big problem is people cannot afford it, even at the lower prices that they are now, they wouldn't be able to afford it, let alone what price is we have today, which is 3040 percent at the international level higher and probably at nor cal level something like twice as high as last year. so if they couldn't afford to buy the food last year, those prices. how would you expect them to buy this year or next year at current prices? this is a lot to do also the purchasing power as it does which supply. so now let me bring you in here because patching is a really big issue across europe at the moment. and for many people's person wallets that they go to the supermarket, because obviously, you know, the various food is manufactured and ends up in a supermarket or not. we're seeing

a rise in food banks in places like the united kingdom across the us across you might say developed urban weston country these. so you have the food crisis, obviously in places like africa and south asia was produced in the field sold at local markets. and then you have any other extreme, you might say in the developed countries where it's just not available on the supermarket shelf, and people are resorting to food banks. i think if you, if we're very honest about this, we've seen inequality rise globally for the last decades we've seen, even in the middle of the cove at pandemic, when generally a great deal of people had their purchasing power hit enormously. their incomes disappear, their livelihoods disappear, and yet the super rich got even richer. and we honestly have a crisis on our hands in terms of distributing and redistributing those funds we've

in europe and in, in the netherlands. in particular, we've chosen to start taxing labor significantly more than we chat than we tax production or them. we've taxed businesses or wet. so we need to reevaluate where and how we're distributing our wells. ah, which i think is fundamental to, to being able to access this food at the same time. we know that by shifting over to agricultural practices, we know that by including society into this food system that re establishing a relationship with nature, society and farmers. we can build a system and we, we've seen that system work in certain places where we've worked with it as, as action it, it increases all of those things. those things need to be included in that system. they can't be treated as separate issues. okay. let me just bring in then a morrissey, younger than in nairobi because in the not too distant future. and in a few days time, we're seeing the g 20 gather in indonesia. what sort of noises would you like to

see from the you might say that the leaders of the economic world, in terms of trying to deal with the issues that you're facing on your continent. yeah, thank you very much. in fact, several points. one, if i just stick you, but we see significant emotionally, especially in terms of gauss going to school or a plan international. you're seeing a lot of protection concepts with children. one of the key messages that they can also mention here is investments in resilience, livelihoods, investments. because climate change is going to be those for a long time. we need to invest in climate adaptation program. we need to support communities preset to ensure that they can, how cyliam livelihoods. because the cycle of growth i've mentioned the cycles of flooding. they're becoming more info from both of the. so if we don't invest in these is going to be really quite for us to dust or on another point as we

are planning that as well. we see a lot of hunger across the african continental model. honda a, grows even implicit lake haiti. we have just lost a lot of organization so that people are dying as we speak. so there is also an important meeting damsel humanitarian that says there's now a build up. it's got a nice, i mean, i know that know you're agreeing with all of that. but obviously the decision makers will be in indonesia. they will be talking and barley what, what would you like to hear them say? because you feel up these sorts of meetings on the periphery. you know how they act, you know, how to behave, you know what they're thinking. well, the thing is that you don't. my previous job is 63 of the agriculture marketing information since then, which is the g 20 initiative. i really, really urging all the g 20 members to sit around the table and have

a real sincere discussion about food systems and the politics out of it. this was the purpose of amos market transparency and dialogue policy dialogue, nor the time done today. we need that dialogue to really be serious, and i think that people, politicians for russia is a member. you is a member, the old g 20 countries. it really have to leave. the war is a terrible thing and there has to be a solution for it. but there is also the food issue and the food issue. other colleagues mentioned a lot of the discussions we have today's about long term investment agriculture. that is absolutely true. but honestly, today we have an emergency and this emergency at least for today, for the next few weeks and months. it's something that can be, can be easily, easily sorted out as long as politicians agreed to sit around the table and talk sincerely one another about that issue and leave other things out of it. i really hope that amos and g 20 in particular, would be able to put this on his agenda and just try to achieve it. because

honestly, if they don't, this would discredit not only do 20 but amos which was for so long a pride of up to 20. so this is really, really important time. and i hope also that they make sure there are no expert restrictions by any country, at least those are members of the g 20. so that, you know, we at least don't add to the already very difficult situation that the world is facing. well, we shall see what happens suddenly at the g 20 in the days ahead. for the moment i'm afraid we've got to end of the for this edition of inside story, i'm sure we will re visit the subject and not too distant future for the moment. nills relevant, announced morris are young go in my re been up to reza amazon in nice gentlemen. thank you very much for joining me on this edition of the program and thank you for watching as well. you can watch program again any time by visiting our website al jazeera dot com for further discussion. go to while facebook page, that's facebook dot com forward slash ha inside story. you can also join the conversation on twitter handle. there is

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