'Afghanistan's food crisis is one of access, not availability'

For 26-year-old Neda Azizi and her family of seven who live in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul, daily meals mostly consist of potato soup. Anything else is beyond their reach, Anadolu Agency reports. Millions of people in the war-torn country are facing a similar situation. But that is not because the country has a problem with food supplies, according to the UN’s food agency. Rather, it is an indicator of the fact that people do not have money to buy what they want. “It is not a food availability crisis in Afghanistan. It is a food accessibility crisis because families cannot afford to buy even the most modest amount of food,” Philippe Kropf, head of communications for the World Food Program (WFP) in […]

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