Annual Country Report 2022: Afghanistan. Country Strategic Plan 2018-2023

Annual Country Report 2022: Afghanistan. Country Strategic Plan 2018-2023

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2022.

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Afghans faced unprecedented levels of hunger and malnutrition in 2022, as opportunities for work, education, and agriculture withered amidst economic turmoil, drought, earthquakes, floods, and increasing restrictions on human rights. More than 20 million people lived in ‘emergency’ or ‘crisis’ levels of food insecurity, and barely one in ten families managed to get enough to eat. As is often the case, women and girls felt the effects most deeply. To staunch the most extreme effects of hunger, WFP assisted 23 million people in Afghanistan in 2022, including 12 million women and girls, in WFP’s largest operation worldwide. They received emergency food, nutrition, and livelihoods support equaling more than 1.14 million metric tons (mt) of food and USD 326.9 million in cash-based assistance. The scale of assistance in 2022 was more than 50 percent larger than in 2021, reflecting the dramatic rise in needs and a massive operational surge.

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