DILI ¨C Timor-Leste¡¯s second round of Integrated Phase Classification (IPC) Acute Food Insecurity analysis published today reveals the fragility and deteriorating levels of food insecurity in twelve out of fourteen municipalities in Timor-Leste, amid the highest inflation rate in a decade and successive climate shocks and soaring food prices.
MANILA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Executive Director Cindy McCain today called for strengthened partnerships in Asia and the Pacific, to increase climate resilience and financing for smallholder communities vulnerable to food insecurity. She was speaking at the Asian Development Bank¡¯s (ADB) Asia and the Pacific Food Security Forum in the Philippines.
LILONGWE ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is appealing for urgent resources to deliver life-saving food assistance to two million people reeling from the devastating impacts of drought, exacerbated by the effects of El Ni?o. This comes just days after Malawi¡¯s President Lazarus Chakwera declared a state of disaster.
YOKOHAMA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a grant of JPY 5 billion (about US$34 million) from the Government of Japan to support Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s emergency assistance to improve food security in 15 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Geneva ¨C This week marks five years since Cyclone Idai struck, affecting more than 2 million people across Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe. In fact, on March 12 in the night, Tropical Storm Filippo entered southern Mozambique, Inhassoro district in Inhambane province, with a very strong winds of up to 120 kilometers per hour. It exited back into the Mozambique channel on March 13th through Gaza province. So, considering that the region, and the provinces are already affected by El Nino phenomenon, water levels in some basins remained low.
BOGOTA - The results of the latest food security assessment by the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in Colombia shows a 5 percent reduction in food insecurity, with 13 million people facing moderate or severe food insecurity - down from 15 million the previous year.
DILI ¨C Timor-Leste¡¯s second round of Integrated Phase Classification (IPC) Acute Food Insecurity analysis published today reveals the fragility and deteriorating levels of food insecurity in twelve out of fourteen municipalities in Timor-Leste, amid successive climate shocks and soaring food prices.
Suva, Fiji - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Government of Fiji to reinforce its partnership with the Ministry of Women, Children and Social Protection, through a pilot Anticipatory Action programme that aims to proactively shield communities in Fiji from the devastating impacts of tropical cyclones.
YOKOHAMA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a grant of US$50 million from the Government of Japan at a time of unprecedented funding shortage. This contribution will enable Â鶹ÊÓƵ to assist vulnerable populations affected by conflict, extreme weather and economic crisis in 20 countries across mainly Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
HARARE ¨C Today, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) announced a contribution of US$11.27 million to the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in Zimbabwe, ensuring that approximately 230,000 of the most vulnerable people in Mwenezi, Mangwe, Chivi, and Buhera districts will receive critical food assistance during the January to March 2024 lean season.
DHAKA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today welcomes a new contribution of US$87 million from the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance of the United States Agency for International Development. This timely funding will significantly bolster Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s efforts in providing lifesaving food and nutrition assistance to the Rohingya refugees in Cox¡¯s Bazar and on Bhasan Char Island, where nearly 1 million people are facing daily hardships, without an immediate prospect of a safe return to Myanmar. Thanks to the unwavering support of the United States and the rest of the donor community, Â鶹ÊÓƵ will increase its food assistance from US$8 to US$10 and add fortified rice to the food basket in Cox's Bazar in January 2024.
NAIROBI ¨C Devastating floods threaten to worsen food insecurity across eastern Africa as heavy rains lash a region that less than a year ago was in the grips of drought, warns the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ).
BAGHDAD ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the Government of Iraq yesterday launched the Land Use Land Cover (LULC) project in Baghdad, a vital step in fighting climate change. LULC generates high-resolution satellite imagery crucial for understanding environmental challenges and guiding sustainable development.
ROME ¨C The Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is at COP28 to call for urgent climate action to protect those on the frontlines of the climate crisis. The climate crisis is driving hunger across the world with a staggering 57 million people pushed into acute food insecurity by climate extremes last year alone. Â鶹ÊÓƵ will showcase solutions to protect those hardest hit by climate change, particularly in fragile and conflict-affected areas.
Rome ¨C To make a dent in spiralling global hunger, the world must rapidly scale up protection for vulnerable people on the frontlines of the climate crisis, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warned today, a week before world leaders meet in Dubai for the next UN Climate Summit, COP28. Last year alone, climate extremes pushed a staggering 56.8 million people into acute food insecurity.
JOHANNESBURG ¨C TEDxJohannesburg supported by the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is to host a TEDx event, as Southern Africa grapples with high levels of food insecurity, with more than 60 million people hungry in 12 countries.
New Delhi ¨C The Government of Norway and United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today signed an agreement to support smallholder farmers, especially women, in the north-eastern state of Assam through a two-year project to address the adverse impacts of climate change.
PORT VILA: In the aftermath of Tropical Cyclone Lola, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), with the support of USAID¡¯s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, is working with Vanuatu¡¯s National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) to enhance humanitarian response and logistics coordination. This joint effort aims to ensure that people affected by the cyclone receive timely and essential assistance.
MOGADISHU ¨C Climate extremes will keep hunger in Somalia at record highs, warned the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today, as deadly floods sweep the country, devastating deeply food-insecure communities who are still battling to recover from the country¡¯s longest recorded drought.
ROME ¨C Today, Cindy McCain, the Executive Director of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and Dr. Sultan Al Jaber, the President of the UN Conference on Climate Change (COP28), called for urgent action to scale up climate action in fragile and conflict-affected settings.
VIENTIANE ¨C The Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare today announced an expansion of its activities to improve community and government capacities in disaster risk reduction in the north of the country. Nearly 16,000 people in four districts of Oudomxay and Phongsaly province will benefit from this cooperation implemented by the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), under the leadership of the Ministry and with support from USAID¡¯s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance.
PALO, LEYTE ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today handed over logistics equipment, including a reach truck and a rice milling machine, to the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Regional Warehouse at a ceremony in Palo, Leyte. This is part of Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s broader effort to enhance the region¡¯s emergency preparedness capacities against climate shocks, after it was devasted by Super Typhoon Yolanda (international name Haiyan) ten years ago.
JUBA ¨C Children in flood-affected parts of South Sudan are expected to face extreme levels of malnutrition in the first half of 2024 as the climate crisis tightens its grip on the country, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warned today.
DILI ¨C The Government of Timor-Leste, in collaboration with the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), has issued an urgent Food Security Alert, mapping the increased risks of food shortages, exacerbated by El Ni?o against the backdrop of the country's dependence on rain-fed agriculture.
MBABANE¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has today received a JPY200 million, contribution - equivalent to US$1.5 million to provide to life-saving food assistance to some 30,000 orphaned and vulnerable children under the age of 6 across the country.
