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GLOBAL REPORT ON FOOD CRISES 2018 HIGHLIGHTSIn 2017, almost 124 million people across 51countries and territories faced Crisis levels of acutefood insecurity or worse (IPC Phase 3 and above orequivalent) and required urgent humanitarian action.In 2016 the population in need of urgent action wasestimated at 108 million across 48 countries.When comparing the 45 countries included in botheditions of the Global Report on Food Crises*, therehas been an increase of 11 million people in needof urgent action, an 11 percent rise from 2016. Thisis largely attributed to new or intensied conictand insecurity in Myanmar, north-east Nigeria,Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan andYemen. Prolonged drought conditions also resulted inconsecutive poor harvests in countries already facinghigh levels of food insecurity and malnutrition ineastern and southern Africa.North-east states of Nigeria, South Sudan, Somaliaand Yemen have experienced signicant acute foodinsecurity and malnutrition. Famine (IPC Phase 5) wasdeclared in February 2017 in two counties of SouthSudan. Despite the different contexts of the fourcountries, humanitarian assistance mobilized by theinternational community contributed to preventing adeterioration in food security and nutrition. However,humanitarian needs remain exceptionally high withalmost 32 million food-insecure people in need ofurgent assistance in 2017 across the four countries – anincrease of almost 5 million from 2016. By mid-2017,Catastrophe/famine (IPC/CH Phase 5) conditionspersisted in South Sudan for 40,000 people and innorth-east Nigeria for 50,000 people.In many countries, food insecurity is driven bymultiple factors. However, the overview given in thisreport focuses on the main driver. In 2017, conictand insecurity were the major drivers of acute foodinsecurity in 18 countries and territories where almost74 million food-insecure people were in need ofurgent assistance. Eleven of these countries werein Africa and accounted for 37 million acutely food- insecure people; the largest numbers were in northernNigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia andSouth Sudan. Four countries affected by protractedconict and with very high numbers of food-insecurepeople in Crisis conditions or worse (IPC Phase 3 orabove) were in the Middle East: Yemen had 17 millionfood-insecure people in need of urgent assistance,while Syria, Iraq and Palestine** together accountedfor over 10 million. In Asia, conict, insecurity andclimate disasters drove large numbers of people intoacute food insecurity in Afghanistan and Myanmar.Food security and livelihood interventions save lives,safeguard livelihoods and strengthen resilience inconict situations and can contribute to generatingpeace dividends and to sustaining peace. Unlesspeace is restored and structural changes made,the situation in these conict-affected countries willcontinue to be volatile with millions of people facingCrisis conditions of food insecurity or worse. Extreme climate events – mainly drought – were alsomajor triggers of food crises in 23 countries with over39 million food-insecure people in need of urgentassistance in 2017.* The Global Report on Food Crises 2017 is available at: fsincop/global-network/global-report/en/ ** The designations employed and the presentation of material in this information product do not imply the expression of anyopinion whatsoever on the part of the Food Security Information Network (FSIN), its constituent parties and its partners con- cerning the legal or development status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitationof its frontiers or boundaries. 。。。。。。