Additional Context: This information was collected as part of The Aid Report's original reporting found in the Devex featured article "Afghans ‘desperate’ as aid cuts bring mass hunger crisis." Our journalist reports that as the snow cuts off highland communities in Afghanistan, aid workers say many won’t be alive once it melts.

Over 17.4 million people are estimated to require food assistance this winter — among the highest numbers ever recorded in Afghanistan — and the food parcels and cash assistance that once came from aid organizations are now scarce following Western donors’ cuts to foreign aid budgets. Last year, it managed to reach 6 million.

Source: Devex