CAIRO ¨C The United Nations¡¯ Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and Seven Circles ¡°Empowering through¡± have launched the ¡®Empowering Women through Cooking¡¯ (EWC) cookbook in Egypt.
BALI, INDONESIA ¨C The United Nation¡¯s Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is attending the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GPDRR) from 23-29 May to call for urgent action in a time of increasing disasters and growing humanitarian needs.
PANAMA CITY ¨C The number of severely food insecure people has shot up by over half a million between December 2021 and March 2022 in Latin America and the Caribbean, as the region struggles to cope with the fallout of COVID-19, now coupled with the consequences of the conflict in Ukraine, warns the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ).
PHNOM PENH ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is organizing a two-day technical training this week on rice fortification to support the development of in-country fortification capacity - in partnership with Green Trade and the Cambodia Rice Federation.
Khartoum ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in Sudan has received a donation of EUR 2.5 million from the Government of Italy through the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) to support emergency nutrition activities in Sudan.
COLOMBO ¨C The Government of Japan today announced a USD 1.5million (LKR 600 million) funding to help the Government of Sri Lanka respond to the ongoing economic crisis. The funds will be used by the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) to provide food assistance to children and families in need of support.
ABIDJAN ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is today calling for a massive expansion of proven solutions that help fix broken food systems and make communities affected by land degradation more resilient to shocks.
N¡¯DJAMENA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) receives a contribution of US$5 million from the Government of Japan to provide food and nutrition assistance to crisis-affected people in Chad.
BAGHDAD ¨C Â鶹ÊÓƵ Iraq is to receive US$1 million of the US$91.6 million that the Government of Sweden has contributed to the organization¡¯s global flexible funding for 2022.
NEW YORK ¨C The UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Executive Director, David Beasley, addressed the United Nations Security Council today on the impact of the war in Ukraine on global food security. Here are selected highlights from his remarks:
DUSHANBE ¨C British Ambassador to Tajikistan Tim Jones visited Vakhsh, Jaloliddini Balkhi, and Yovon districts of Khatlon Region and saw first-hand the school feeding programme implemented by the United Nations World Food Programe (Â鶹ÊÓƵ).
Juba ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) yesterday awarded funding to nine ventures in a competition aimed at strengthening food systems in South Sudan by improving access to food and nutrition and empowering the most vulnerable producers and consumers.
DILI ¨CThe United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the Ministry of Health today started to distribute Super Cereal, a fortified blend rich in vitamins and minerals, to vulnerable groups. Procured with funding contribution from China, the nutritious food will be distributed to more than 144,000 malnourished pregnant and breastfeeding women across all 13 municipalities over the next four months.
BAGHDAD ¨C In 2021, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) received a total of a CAD 5.5 million contribution from the Government of Canada, including CAD 1 million from a regional project between Canada and Â鶹ÊÓƵ. This donation has helped Â鶹ÊÓƵ provide food assistance to 255,000 displaced Iraqi families and 72,000 Syrian refugees living in camps as well as emergency livelihood restoration activities throughout 2021.
SANA¡¯A/YOKOHAMA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ has welcomed a US$ 10 million contribution from the Government of Japan to provide life-saving food assistance in Yemen, where people are pushed to the brink due to a prolonged conflict, an economic crisis, and the fallout of the war in Ukraine.
ABIDJAN ¨C With today¡¯s start of the 15th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP15) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), the Â鶹ÊÓƵ is making available to the media, experts on resilience and food systems who can comment on the linkages between desertification and hunger, as well as on large scale solutions and greening the Sahel.
Humanitarian assistance averted a catastrophe in the harsh winter months ¨C but hunger continues across the country at unprecedented levels.
KABUL ¨C 19.7 million people, almost half of Afghanistan¡¯s population, are facing acute hunger according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis conducted in January and February 2022 by Food Security and Agriculture Cluster partners, including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and many NGOs.
CAIRO ¨C The war in Ukraine has dealt a fresh hammer blow to Syria¡¯s ability to feed itself just as the country struggles to deal with levels of hunger that are up by half since 2019, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) said today on the eve of the annual donor pledging conference held in Brussels.
LVIV ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ welcomes a contribution of EUR 25 million from the European Union to provide humanitarian food assistance to people affected by the conflict in Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova. This funding contributes to the provision of multipurpose cash as well as immediate food relief to families in conflict-affected areas in Ukraine, and to displaced people from Ukraine in Moldovan transit sites and receptions centres.
ROME ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ is today calling for the re-opening of the ports in the Odesa area of southern Ukraine so that food being produced in the war-torn country can flow freely to the rest of the world, before the current global hunger crisis spins out of control.
LVIV ¨C The UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine to scale up cash transfers to half a million people across Ukraine.
Suva/Apia ¨C A planeload of medical equipment and supplies touched down in Apia on Monday to bolster Samoa¡¯s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The goods were provided by the World Health Organization (WHO) for the Ministry of Health of Samoa and transported by the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) through its Pacific Humanitarian Air Service, with funding support from the European Union (EU).
The international community calls for a shift towards better prevention, anticipation, and targeting to address the root causes of food crises
ROME ¨C The number of people facing acute food insecurity and requiring urgent life-saving food assistance and livelihood support continues to grow at an alarming rate. This makes it more urgent than ever to tackle the root causes of food crises rather than just responding after they occur. This is a key takeaway from an annual report launched today by the Global Network Against Food Crises (GNAFC) - an international alliance of the United Nations, the European Union, governmental and non-governmental agencies working to tackle food crises together.
ANTANANARIVO ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ today welcomed a EUR 1.5 million contribution from France to help treat and prevent acute malnutrition among young children in southern Madagascar, which is reeling from three consecutive years of devastating drought.
