The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization or FAO warned that food insecurity continues to deepen in South Sudan as funding for assistance decreases.
FAO in a statement on Thursday in Rome, Italy, said the funding shortfall is hampering efforts to help farmers, fishers and pastoralists with emergency livelihood kits including seeds, fishing equipment, livestock treatment kits and vaccines for veterinary support, aggravating the risk of famine in some areas.
The agency said it is delivering emergency livelihood support ten times faster than last year and that it spent all funds it received.
FAO said an additional 66 million US Dollars is urgently needed to further expand the agency’s support.
The agency said it received 42 million of the 108 million US Dollars it appealed for as part of the revised Crisis Response Plan for 2014 and used the money for delivering livelihood kits to 1.2 million people in South Sudan.