Why 20 Million People Are on Brink of Famine in a ‘World of Plenty’<br />22, 2017<br />UNITED NATIONS — In a world filled with excess food, 20 million people are on the<br />brink of famine, including 1.4 million children at imminent risk of death.<br />In South Sudan, 100,000 people are affected by famine in a part of the country<br />that is most troubled by the fighting between two warring armies, the United Nations announced Monday, with one million more on the brink of famine.<br />Guterres said that I want to make a personal appeal to the parties to conflict to abide by international humanitarian law<br />and allow aid workers access to reach people in desperate need,<br />It is declared after three specific criteria are met: when one in five households in a certain area face extreme food shortages; more than 30 percent of the population is acutely malnourished;<br />and at least two people for every 10,000 die each day.<br />More than seven million people need urgent food aid, according to the United Nations.<br />Nearly three million people there "cannot meet their daily food requirements," the United Nations says.<br />People have already died." Famine was last declared in Somalia in July 2011, after an estimated 260,000 people had died, mostly in a two-month period.
