{"id":366546,"date":"2026-03-30T22:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T22:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/366546\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T22:37:11","slug":"myanmar-wfp-reports-fragile-recovery-one-year-after-deadly-earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/366546\/","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar: WFP reports fragile recovery one year after deadly earthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Food Programme\u2019s\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www1.wfp.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WFP<\/a>)\u00a0latest\u00a0monitoring shows a\u00a0fragile recovery from the\u00a0disaster.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the affected regions of\u00a0Sagaing\u00a0and Mandalay, one in six households continue to face moderate to severe food insecurity, whilst\u00a0half of all families\u00a0remain\u00a0only marginally food secure,\u00a0making\u00a0them\u00a0exceptionally vulnerable to\u00a0even the smallest shock.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople who survived the earthquake have barely begun to stand again, and now another blow is knocking them back down,\u201d\u00a0said\u00a0WFP Country Director\u00a0Michael Dunford.<\/p>\n<p>Middle East conflict increasing\u00a0prices\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The conflict in the Middle East is disrupting transportation and driving fuel shortages across Myanmar.<\/p>\n<p>Rising fuel prices are pushing up the cost of moving food and agricultural goods, placing\u00a0additional\u00a0strain on households already struggling to afford\u00a0essentials.<\/p>\n<p>The crisis is also striking Myanmar\u2019s farmers as they prepare for monsoon crops. With fertilizer demand expected to rise over the next three months, fuel shortages and rising input costs are threatening to push production expenses to\u00a0double last year\u2019s levels.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earthquake and conflict areas hardest hit\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These compounding shocks are expected to hit hardest in conflict and earthquake\u00a0affected areas, such as Chin, Kachin, Kayah, Rakhine,\u00a0Sagaing\u00a0and Shan, worsening the food insecurity in a country where 12.4 million people\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0nearly one quarter of the population\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0are already facing acute hunger.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Over the past year, WFP reached half a million earthquake survivors with relief and recovery support.\u00a0However, the organisation\u00a0has now transitioned from emergency relief to restoring community infrastructure that provides long-term stability.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Funding needs\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>WFP needs\u00a0$150 million\u00a0to\u00a0assist\u00a01.5 million people across the country this year with life-saving\u00a0assistance\u00a0and\u00a0resilience support.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Without sufficient funding,\u00a0the agency\u00a0will be forced to prioritize the most urgent life-saving needs, potentially scaling back recovery efforts that help earthquake survivors rebuild livelihoods and reduce long-term dependence on aid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people of Myanmar have endured shock after shock \u2013 conflict, climate disasters, the devastating earthquake, and now a global fuel crisis,\u201d Mr. Dunford said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must stand with them now. One year after the earthquake, they cannot afford another fall.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The World Food Programme\u2019s\u00a0(WFP)\u00a0latest\u00a0monitoring shows a\u00a0fragile recovery from the\u00a0disaster.\u00a0\u00a0 In the affected regions of\u00a0Sagaing\u00a0and Mandalay, one in six&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242,85,46,141],"class_list":["post-366546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}