UNICEF warns that a combination of global shocks to food security worldwide – led by the war in Ukraine, economies struggling with pandemic recovery, and persistent drought conditions in some countries due to climate change – is creating conditions for a significant increase in global levels of severe wasting. “The world is rapidly becoming a virtual tinderbox of preventable child deaths and child suffering from wasting.”Ĭurrently, at least 10 million severely wasted children – or 2 in 3 – do not have access to the most effective treatment for wasting, ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF). “Even before the war in Ukraine placed a strain on food security worldwide, conflict, climate shocks and COVID-19 were already wreaking havoc on families’ ability to feed their children,” said UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell. Released today, Severe wasting: An overlooked child survival emergency shows that in spite of rising levels of severe wasting in children and rising costs for life-saving treatment, global financing to save the lives of children suffering from wasting is also under threat. NEW YORK, - The number of children with severe wasting was rising even before war in Ukraine threatened to plunge the world deeper into a spiralling global food crisis - and it’s getting worse, UNICEF warned in a new Child Alert. Soaring food prices driven by the war in Ukraine and pandemic-fuelled budget cuts set to drive up both need for, and cost of life-saving therapeutic food treatment, the latter by up to 16 per cent Download Report (PDF | 233.54 KB | Arabic version).FKP Scorpio also recently announced a new showcase festival in Sweden, Where’s The Music?, which will plug the music conference gap between Eurosonic Noorderslag and by:Larm left by MIDEM (which has shifted to new summer dates). It is growing its interests rapidly in Europe, and especially Scandinavia, which some independent and Live Nation-allied events see as a threat. It has been speculated that the real source of tension in this bust up is actually the there mentioned German booking agency and festival promoter FKP Scorpio, the other partner in Tinderbox. Moreover, we will develop our concert business further with our good partners in Beatbox Entertainment and FKP Scorpio”. We will now focus 100% on our two successful festivals in Aarhus, Northside and Grim Feast, and on the launch of Tinderbox in Odense, which we expect a lot from. They continued: “We do not want our own people or our other business to stand in the way of our artists’ careers, and therefore we pull from the booking industry. You can think what you like about the boycott, but it is a fact that the festivals failed to enter a dialogue before the boycott and subsequently refused to enter into dialogue with us”. Unfortunately it also cost several people their jobs. In a statement, via Denmark’s Gaffa magazine, Neilsen and Myllerup said: “We are obviously annoyed that four festivals’ boycott must have such drastic consequences for our company. Now Tinderbox co-founders Brian Nielsen and Flemming Myllerup, who are also involved in the Northside and Grim Feast festivals, have announced their departure from Scandinavian, in a bid to relieve some of the tension for that company. Festival Republic also cancelled the 2015 edition of its Hove Festival in Norway, claiming that the emergence of the new festival made it too difficult to compete in the already busy Nordic market.īeatbox’s two founders had already split their business interests, ensuring that the booking agency and festival promotion sides of the company were separate, which meant Beatbox Booking’s Peter Sørensen expressed some surprise when a boycott nevertheless began against his firm. Two staffers at Denmark-based booking agency Scandinavian have resigned from the company, after their involvement in the upcoming Tinderbox festival resulted in a boycott of the agency by a number of other major music events.Īs previously reported, Roskilde Festival, Smukfest, Nibe Festival and Jelling Musikfestival all refused to work with Scandinavian, and another Danish agency called Beatbox, in protest against Tinderbox and the public funding it is receiving (£2.5 million over five years). Business News Gigs & Festivals Danish booking agency resignations follow Tinderbox controversy By Andy Malt | Published on Friday 10 October 2014
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