Global Coronavirus Relief

by ActionAid USA
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Project Report | Jan 15, 2024
COVID-19 and Food Price Rise Research

By Katherine Coe | Individual Giving Officer

In a world facing an unprecedented cost of living crisis, local communities in the Global South are again bearing the burden of severe price rises for essentials such as food, fuel, and fertilizer.

 Even before the invasion of Ukraine, communities across the world were grappling with the far-reaching effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, a year that tested the resilience of so many, food security surged to alarming levels surpassing the previous five years combined. Then in 2022, the invasion of Ukraine resulted in even sharper rises of food, fuel, and fertilizer prices as the war impacted supplies from both Russia and Ukraine, which are among the world’s top exporters of these products.

Our research released in May 2022 in the report “Doubly Devastating” revealed that local communities were paying double, triple, or even close to four times what they had been paying for food, fuel, and fertilizer before the war began.

Now, ActionAid’s new and more detailed research has found that families are spending up to ten times what they paid almost 16 months ago for food, fuel, and fertilizer. While global prices have dropped by 11.7% since February 2022, our research finds that prices in local communities in the Global South have increased to crisis levels.

Women and girls are disproportionally affected by multiple crises that impact their food intake, education, their right to live free from child marriage, and their mental health and wellbeing.

ActionAid is advocating for a holistic approach to address these intertwining crises; this approach requires the alignment of climate, humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding efforts to provide flexible and multi-year funding that is accessible to women and young people’s organizations, which are best positioned to work with those in greatest need and address the gendered impact of the food crisis. The priority should be to save lives now, which includes addressing the challenges and protection risks faced by women in situations of crisis, while strengthening resilience against further shocks and crises. This resilience-building for the global food crisis must address food sovereignty as well as a transition to alternative energy sources and to just, feminist, and green economic policies.

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Katherine Coe
Washington , DC United States

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