Jean-Martin Bauer, a UN World Food Programme (WFP) director who has worked to combat hunger in West Africa, Syria, Iraq and Central Africa, explains how significant the use of the word “famine” is to describe the situation in Gaza, which is experiencing the world’s fifth confirmed famine of its scale. Al Jazeera reports.
The expert outlined how the term is arrived at through a globally accepted process with clear standards and conditions that relate to the number of deaths from starvation and the share of the population and children suffering from extreme food shortages and acute malnutrition.