We are extremely concerned about the ongoing targeting of civilian infrastructure, including of grain supplies in southern Ukraine, and Russia’s decision earlier in the week to pull out of the Black Sea Grain initiative.
Read MoreA new study—Knowing Better, Responding Worse: How Mistakes from 2008 Led to the Food Crisis of Today—just released by CARE reported that 112.6 million more people around the world were driven to hunger after 2020, compared to the previous major global food crisis (2008-2009).
Read MoreWith almost 6.7 million people hungry, over 4 million livestock dead, 32%-75% of cereal harvests failed, an increase in food prices, and flooding in several areas, Somalia is facing a worsening crisis. Somalia's worst food crisis in 40 years is largely due to climate change.
Read MoreCARE is there delivering lifesaving aid and defending the lives of families in crisis.
The conflict threatens the planting season which is set to begin at the end of May. If the season is missed, the number of people going hungry —at 11 million or 25 percent of the population prior to the current crisis—will increase.
Read MoreA bipartisan delegation of six U.S. Congressional Representatives traveled to Kenya with CARE and Save the Children’s Action Network (SCAN) to learn about how U.S. foreign investments are enabling communities to thrive and find durable solutions to hunger and malnutrition in the region, even as they experience economic hardship, conflict, and humanitarian crises.
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