{"id":46090,"date":"2022-07-06T23:00:17","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T14:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jul\/06\/famine-what-is-it-where-will-it-strike-and-how-should-the-world-respond"},"modified":"2022-07-06T23:00:17","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T14:00:17","slug":"famine-what-is-it-where-will-it-strike-and-how-should-the-world-respond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46090","title":{"rendered":"Famine: what is it, where will it strike and how should the world respond?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A toxic combination of climate emergency, conflict and Covid is pushing some of the poorest countries into an acute hunger crisis<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jul\/06\/global-hunger-toll-soars-by-150-million-as-covid-and-ukraine-war-make-their-mark\">Global hunger toll soars by 150m as Covid and war make their mark<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The world is in the grip of an unprecedented hunger crisis. A toxic combination of climate crisis, conflict and Covid had already placed some of the poorest countries under enormous strain, but Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine has sent grain and fuel prices soaring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thought it couldn\u2019t get any worse,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jun\/17\/united-nations-wfp-hell-on-earth-ukraine-war-russia\">said David Beasley, director of the UN World Food Programme<\/a> (WFP), in June. \u201cBut this war has been devastating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jul\/06\/famine-what-is-it-where-will-it-strike-and-how-should-the-world-respond\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A toxic combination of climate emergency, conflict and Covid is pushing some of the poorest countries into an acute hunger crisisGlobal hunger toll soars by 150m as Covid and war make their markThe world is in the grip of an unprecedented hunger crisis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2266,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,401,2156,1527,59,1389,212,79,1944,61,1943,42,943],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-africa","category-ethiopia","category-famine","category-global-development","category-hunger","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-society","category-somalia","category-south-and-central-asia","category-south-sudan","category-world-news","category-yemen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2266"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46091,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46090\/revisions\/46091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}