{"id":360308,"date":"2026-06-05T20:22:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T01:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/un-food-agency-says-millions-are-being-pushed-into-hunger-by-iran-war"},"modified":"2026-06-05T20:22:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T01:22:51","slug":"un-food-agency-says-millions-are-being-pushed-into-hunger-by-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/un-food-agency-says-millions-are-being-pushed-into-hunger-by-iran-war","title":{"rendered":"UN meals company says thousands and thousands are being pushed into starvation by Iran struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB \">UNITED NATIONS &#8212; <\/span>The U.N. food agency said millions of people are being pushed into acute hunger by <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/iran\">the Iran war<\/a>, as it warned would happen if the conflict escalated and oil prices remained high. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The World Food Program said an analysis in three vulnerable countries found that an additional 2.5 million people in Somalia, 2.3 million in Afghanistan and 1.3 million in Sri Lanka are struggling to meet their basic food needs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In March, WFP predicted that 45 million people could be pushed into food insecurity by the end of June. That would be on top of the 318 million people around the world who are already food insecure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cWe remain by that prognosis,\u201d WFP\u2019s acting Executive Director Carl Skau told U.N. reporters. \u201cThat\u2019s mainly because the correlation between the prices of energy and food is so tight in many places, and also that in the poorest countries people are already spending all their money on food, and hence when food prices rise, they eat less.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">WFP said in its report, circulated late Thursday, that its findings indicate the Mideast crisis is generating \u201csignificant spillovers,&#8221; particularly on the prices of food and fuel, and disrupting trade. Especially in already vulnerable countries, the Rome-based U.N. agency said, these factors interact and quickly impact food security and livelihoods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cThese impacts are expected to intensify in the coming months, even if the crisis in the Middle East de-escalates,\u201d WFP said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Skau cited other global hotspots with food insecurity, including Sudan, Gaza, southern Lebanon, Yemen and Haiti.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">WFP has had to limit aid to millions of needy people because of funding cuts, and Skau urged donors to step up, especially for Somalia and Afghanistan \u201cbecause the human consequences of not doing more will be massive.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/wireStory\/food-agency-millions-pushed-hunger-iran-war-133634755\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNITED NATIONS &#8212; The U.N. food agency said millions of people are being pushed into acute hunger by the Iran war, as it warned would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":360311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[35579,12983,3786,2005,19676,1347,20735,19518,35580,2305,9562],"class_list":["post-360308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-carl-skau","tag-haiti","tag-iran","tag-lebanon","tag-oil-costs","tag-rome","tag-southern-lebanon","tag-sri-lanka","tag-u-n-company","tag-united-nations","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360308"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360310,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360308\/revisions\/360310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}