CHENNAI ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) have entered into a strategic partnership to build upon research and programmes that enhance resilience and food security in climate-affected communities in India.
Phnom Penh. Germany and Â鶹ÊÓƵ entered into a new partnership to support lower-income Cambodian families affected by multiple shocks such as COVID-19 and climate-related shocks. The Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), has committed EUR 5 million, which is approximately US$ 6 million to provide cash assistance to vulnerable households to support their recovery. The partners will also support the Royal Government of Cambodia to enhance the responsiveness of social protection schemes to strengthen resilience to shocks
LUANDA¨C More than 1.3 million people in the three south-western provinces of Cunene, Huila and Namibe are facing severe hunger as the worst drought in 40 years leaves fields barren, pasture lands dry and food reserves depleted, according to a recent Integrated Phase Classification (IPC) analysis that categorises food insecurity.
NEW DELHI/HYDERABAD: The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) have entered a partnership to bolster climate-resilient food and nutrition security and livelihoods in India.
LILONGWE: UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) activities in Malawi between 2015 to 2020 have helped communities adapt to a changing climate and enabled them to break out of the cycle of hunger, confirms a recent independent evaluation.
BAGHDAD ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has expanded its resilience-building programme across Salah al-Din governorate north of Baghdad, to respond to growing concerns about the lower than usual rainfall in Iraq. This year has seen the second lowest rainfall in 40 years in the country.
BANJUL ¨C The Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) started food distributions and cash transfers to support recovery of communities affected by a windstorm and flash floods in July. The support will help families meet their immediate food needs and replenish destroyed or lost food stocks.
Bujumbura - Funding from the European Union (EU) is helping the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) to predict climate shocks and implement a series of timely activities to improve the resilience of communities in Burundi affected by torrential rains.
COX¡¯S BAZAR ¨C Thousands of families in flood-prone areas in Teknaf have received mobile money transfers from the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) thanks to funding from the European Union (EU) designed to be released upon forecasts of severe weather.
ANTANANARIVO, 26 July 2021 ¨C At least half a million children under the age of five are expected to be acutely malnourished including 110,000 in severe condition, in drought-affected southern Madagascar, suffering irreversible damage to their growth and development. The number of acutely malnourished children is likely to increase fourfold since the previous assessment conducted in October 2020, warn UNICEF and the UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ).
The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) humanitarian operations are getting a major boost with an AUD 34.7 million contribution from the Government of Australia. The funding will assist communities across the Indo-Pacific region affected by hunger as a result of conflict, COVID-19, or climate emergencies.
Dili ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), with support from Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF), has conducted a series of assessment flights on behalf of the Government to determine the extent of agricultural and infrastructural damages caused by Cyclone Seroja that hit the Timor-Leste early April.
ROME ¨C The visit to Central America by Â鶹ÊÓƵ Executive Director, David Beasley renews Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s commitment to working with vulnerable communities, offering them sustainable livelihoods and food security in their villages, giving them reasons to stay at home and reducing migration. During his visit Beasley met families affected by climate change coupled with job losses and rising inequality, a fallout of COVID-19.
ROME ¨C Hunger in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua has increased almost fourfold over the past two years - from 2.2 million people in 2018 to close to 8 million people in 2021 ¨C a result of the economic crisis caused by COVID-19 and years of extreme climate events. Of this figure, 1.7 million people are in the ¡®Emergency¡¯ category of food insecurity and require urgent food assistance.
This is a summary of what was said by Â鶹ÊÓƵ spokesperson Tomson Phiri ¨C to whom quoted text may be attributed ¨C at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.
GENEVA - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ is currently conducting needs assessments with the Government of Mozambique and partners. In order to have a full picture of the impact of the devastating cyclone and the extent of the damage, Â鶹ÊÓƵ is supporting both on ground and aerial assessments undertaken with drones.
OUAGADOUGOU ¨C A donation of € 4.2 million from the European Union (EU) contributed to Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s efforts to stave off a hunger catastrophe in Burkina Faso, where 2 million people are struggling to feed themselves due to the combined effects of conflict, climate shocks and the socio-economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
ROME ¨C Millions of people in Central America urgently need food assistance in the wake of Hurricane Eta, one of the worst storms in decades, as fears grow of another storm brewing in the coming days.
MANAGUA ¨C As powerful Hurricane Eta makes landfall along the northern Caribbean coast of Nicaragua, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), at the request of the Government, has positioned 80 metric tons of food assistance in the region. The Category 4 hurricane, with winds of 240 km/h, is bringing heavy rain and causing damage to homes, agricultural fields, roads and power lines.
MASERU ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes the European Union¡¯s (EU) contribution of €2.8 million (M55.5 million) to provide much needed relief assistance to the most vulnerable people in Lesotho affected by three consecutive years of drought and the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Khartoum - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Sudan has welcomed a contribution of US$1.7 million from the Government of Japan to support vulnerable people whose livelihoods and food security are most at risk because of desert locust swarms that migrated to Sudan from Kenya and South Sudan earlier this year.
LONDON ¨C To urge action on addressing the urgent risk of famine, the UK¡¯s first Special Envoy for Famine Prevention and Humanitarian Affairs Nick Dyer met the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s Executive Director David Beasley to jointly call for other countries to step up.
LILONGWE - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a new contribution of EUR 2.3 million from the Flanders Government in Belgium which will help Â鶹ÊÓƵ reach an additional 100,000 smallholder farmers increasing their crop production and food consumption and building resilience to climatic shocks.
DUSHANBE ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the Committee for Environmental Protection (CEP) under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan signed an agreement last week to launch a climate change adaptation project funded by the Green Climate Fund (GCF). The project will benefit over the next four years approximately 115,000 food-insecure people in rural Tajik communities.
DHAKA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), in support of the Government of Bangladesh¡¯s emergency response, has dispatched cash assistance to communities at risk of monsoon flooding in northern Bangladesh.
