(New York) US President Joe Biden is to announce on Wednesday before the United Nations General Assembly new aid of $ 2.9 billion to fight food insecurity in the world, according to a press release from the White House.
Posted at 10:09 a.m.
Updated at 10:16 a.m.
This new funding, which comes on top of a sum of 6.9 billion dollars already promised this year by Washington to fight hunger in the world, will be broken down as follows: 2 billion for emergency humanitarian interventions, 783 million for longer-term development projects, and a contribution of 150 million to the “Global Agriculture and Food Security Program”, an international platform launched at the G20 level after the great financial and economic crisis of 2008.
“The cumulative impact of the pandemic, the worsening climate crisis, rising energy and fertilizer costs, and protracted conflict – including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – has disrupted global food supply chains and sharply increases global food prices,” the US executive said in its statement.
This new American aid “will save lives through emergency interventions and invest in the medium and long term in food security assistance”, he continues.
World leaders, meeting in New York, have already called on Tuesday to redouble efforts against the growing food insecurity on the planet.
In a joint statement, the United States, the European Union, the African Union, Colombia, Nigeria and Indonesia thus affirmed their “commitment to act with urgency, scale and concert to meet the urgent food needs hundreds of millions of people around the world.
In particular, they undertake to increase their financial aid to humanitarian organizations and not to put in place restrictions on the food and fertilizer markets.
“There is no peace with hunger and there is no fight against hunger without peace,” summed up Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.