World Food Day; Ukraine

 In our English class, I searched what happening in Ukraine for World Food Day presentation.

The Russian-Ukraine war has prompted workplace closures, and restrictions on production and trade thus having cascading effects on economic activity, food prices, and employment.

In addition, Ukrainians suffer from challenges such as limited access to fresh water, poor sanitation, and disruption of stable food supply.

The scarcity of food in some parts of Ukraine greatly affects the livelihood of Ukrainians.

Most of the energy for agricultural production including fuels, electricity, fertilizers, pesticides, and lubricants is reallocated into military use, thus rendering the people unable to produce enough food and thus subjecting people to malnutrition.

The World Food Program (WFP) started implementing the plan to assist with food insecurity in Ukraine.

Following the official request from Ukraine, WFP has launched an operation aimed at providing food to the ones that flee from conflicts inside Ukraine.

Priority actions intended at averting the food security crises include conducting a rapid food security assessment to better estimate needs; mobilizing food security assistance; providing hot meals in collective centers; distributing emergency food kits; and delivering agricultural inputs including vegetable garden seeds.

However, challenges arise in the implementation of the program.

To begin with, the fact that Ukraine has been one of the bigger global food suppliers and Ukraine’s nearby countries depend on the wheat supply from. Ukraine.

The conflict has then put these countries at food insecurity that could otherwise help fleeing individuals.

Second, there has been a global increase in acute food insecurity, that raised from 135 to 276 million since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The pandemic has been mentioned to be among the causes of food insecurity among western Ukraines in 2021.

It is a recommendation that, in the implementation of the WFP wonderful operation, paying attention to the global details on food insecurity.