MAPUTO - The European Union (EU) has recently contributed €3 million to strengthen resilience of vulnerable and food insecure communities and enhance the capacity of social protection systems for better adaptation and response to the impacts of climate change in drought-prone areas of Gaza and Tete provinces.
The project, entitled Pro-Resilience Action (PRO-ACT) in Mozambique, will be jointly implemented by the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) over a period of three years (2020 - 2022).
SAN SALVADOR - Damage caused by Tropical Storm Amanda which lashed El Salvador is compounding the socioeconomic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and is set to increase the number of food insecure people in El Salvador, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warned today.
LUSAKA ¨C While ramping up its efforts to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has begun delivering relief food assistance to more than a quarter of a million vulnerable people heavily impacted by recent flash flooding.
BAMAKO ¨C As the world braces for the socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 health pandemic, Germany has reaffirmed its commitment to the long-term improvement of livelihoods and food security in Mali through an EUR 11 million contribution to the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s life-changing activities in the country
YOKOHAMA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has welcomed a total of US$11.7 million in funding from the Government of Japan to provide vital food and nutrition assistance to the vulnerable populations in the Central Sahel affected by escalating armed conflict and severe impacts of climate change.
HARARE ¨C With Zimbabwe¡¯s already severe climate- and recession-induced hunger crisis deepening and COVID-19 taking hold, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) urgently needs US$130 million to sustain through August an emergency operation to prevent millions of the country¡¯s most vulnerable people plunging deeper into hunger.
YOKOHAMA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has welcomed a contribution of US$7.5 million from the Government of Japan to help support vulnerable people in three East African countries hit by locust swarms feeding off crops.
180,000 people in Kivu provinces to benefit as German Government expands its support to communities weakened by conflict, agricultural and climate shocks
4 March 2020, Kinshasa ¨C The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), through the German Development Bank KfW, has contributed EUR 50 million (USD 54 million) to a resilience building programme to be implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Children¡¯s Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
MASERU ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes the European Union (EU) contribution of €1.5 million (equivalent to about M24 million) in humanitarian support, enabling Â鶹ÊÓƵ to expand ongoing emergency drought assistance to an additional 22,100 people on top of the 77,880 people that are already receiving assistance.
DAKAR, 03 February 2020 - The number of people facing a critical lack of food and vital livelihood opportunities in the Central Sahel has spiked in one year due to rising insecurity and climatic shocks. The situation may further deteriorate unless the international community acts now, three United Nations agencies warned today.
JOHANNESBURG/LONDON ¨C A record 45 million people - mostly women and children - in the 16-nation Southern African Development Community are gravely food insecure following repeated drought, widespread flooding and economic disarray. As the crisis deepens, the world must step up now to save lives and enable communities to adapt to climate change, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has warned.
NASSAU ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is distributing food vouchers to assist 500 of the most vulnerable families living on hurricane-stricken Abaco in the Bahamas, which will allow them to buy the food of their choice and prioritise their needs.
HARARE ¨C Millions of Zimbabweans pushed into hunger by prolonged drought and economic crisis face an increasingly desperate situation unless adequate funding for a major relief operation materialises quickly, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has warned.
ROME/JUBA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is in a race against time to mobilize vital funds to feed millions of people in South Sudan as hunger advances on a population in dire need of humanitarian assistance. Catastrophic flooding over recent months is pushing the country and its people towards a precipice as the year ends amid intense political instability.
JUBA - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has received a €10 million (US$10.9 million) contribution from Germany to support life-saving humanitarian and recovery activities as well as the current response to widespread flooding in South Sudan.
April 25th, 2019, Panama City. ¨C The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today warned that prolonged droughts and heavy rain have destroyed more than half of the maize and bean crops of the subsistence farmers along the Central American Dry Corridor, leaving them without food reserves and affecting their food security.
A report presented today jointly by the European Union, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) finds that that around 113 million people in 53 countries experienced acute food insecurity in 2018, compared to 124 million in 2017
