{"id":3561,"date":"2019-07-04T07:48:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T07:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3561"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:23","slug":"one-in-five-of-swazilands-rural-population-need-urgent-humanitarian-assistance-against-hunger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/04\/one-in-five-of-swazilands-rural-population-need-urgent-humanitarian-assistance-against-hunger\/","title":{"rendered":"One in five of Swaziland\u2019s rural population need urgent humanitarian assistance against hunger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Swaziland Media Commentary<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 200,000\npeople in Swaziland \/ eSwatini which is one in five of the rural population are\nexperiencing severe food shortages and require urgent humanitarian\nassistance,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/eswatini\/eswatini-integrated-food-security-phase-classification-snapshot-june-2019-march-2020\">a report published<\/a>&nbsp;on Tuesday (2 July 2019) stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And, hunger has got\nworse since last year. There are about 157,000 people in a \u2018crisis situation\u2019\nand another 47,000 in an \u2018emergency situation\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Integrated Food\nSecurity Phase Classification (IPC) snapshot for the period up to March 2020\nstated, \u2018In comparison with last year, the situation has deteriorated.\u2019 It\nadded, \u2018This deterioration can be attributed to the anticipated drought, which\nled to farmers choosing not to plant their fields, reducing casual labour\nopportunities and food availability, with one-fifth of households depleting\ntheir assets or engaging in crisis or emergency coping strategies to mitigate\nmoderate to large food gaps. <a href=\"https:\/\/swazimedia.blogspot.com\/2019\/07\/one-in-five-of-swazilands-rural.html\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Swaziland Media Commentary More than 200,000 people in Swaziland \/ eSwatini which is one in five of the rural population are experiencing severe food shortages and require urgent humanitarian&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}