Famine

Hey everyone,
that is some of the information we used in our last Food Security session. it is taken from BBC. Calling a famine helps raise awareness of a crisis and can help raise emergency funds. But declaring a famine also means that a government has to step back for international help and accepts other countries to take over major responsibilities in the own country.

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Stages in food security:
• Phase 1: Generally food secure
• Phase 2: Moderately/borderline food insecure
• Phase 3: Acute food and livelihood crisis
• Phase 4: Humanitarian emergency
• Phase 5: Famine/humanitarian catastrophe

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When is it a famine?
UN declares it when at least the first three of these conditions occur:

• 20% of population has fewer than 2,100 kilocalories of food a day
• Acute malnutrition in more than 30% of children
• Two deaths per 10,000 people, or four deaths per 10,000 children every day
• A pandemic illness
• Access to less than four litres of water a day
• Large-scale displacement
• Civil strife
• Complete loss of assets and source of income