LILONGWE ¨C After drought and pests destroyed crops during the 2020-2021 farming season, nearly 65,000 farming households in Malawi have received cash payouts from an agricultural insurance programme of the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ). This is one of the largest crop index insurance payouts ever on the African continent, amounting to US$2.4 million.
BAGHDAD ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has received a US$1 million contribution from the Republic of Korea to support Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s food assistance for up to 327,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) and Syrian refugees until the end of the year, who are living in camps.
ANTANANARIVO ¨C As climate talks get underway in Glasgow, families in Southern Madagascar, where climate is driving famine-like conditions, brace themselves for yet another harsh year ahead as the ongoing drought shows no signs of abating, signaling deteriorating hunger.
BRAS?LIA ¨C The Â鶹ÊÓƵ Centre of Excellence against Hunger in Brazil is marking 10 years of operations with an online event on the role of South-South and Triangular Cooperation in the fight against hunger.
YANGON ¨C The European Union has contributed EUR 4 million to help the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) respond to the rising humanitarian needs in Myanmar. Over 370,000 people in Chin, Kachin, Rakhine, and Shan states have received life-saving food and nutrition support since the beginning of 2021, thanks to the generous contribution.
ROME ¨C Climate change is a leading cause of global hunger as relentless droughts render fertile land bare, devastating floods destroy crops and record-breaking storms reduce homes and infrastructure to rubble. In 2020, extreme climate drove 30 million people from their homes ¨C more than the population of Australia and New Zealand combined.
Bamako: The Government of Japan has contributed approximately USD1.8 million (one billion XOF) to the United Nations¡¯ Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) to improve food security and nutrition, while reinforcing resilience for vulnerable communities in Mali.
DUSHANBE ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Tajikistan handed over 1,485 tons of fortified wheat flour and around 61 tons of vegetable oil to the Ministry of Education and Science of Tajikistan during a ceremony this week. The food will cover the needs of the national School Feeding Programme in the Districts of the Republican Subordination (DRS), Khatlon Region, and the Gorno-Badakshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO).
BEIJING - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the Government of the People¡¯s Republic of China have recently signed an agreement to support Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s emergency food and nutrition operations in Timor-Leste.
ROME/KABUL ¨C More than half the population of Afghanistan ¨C a record 22.8 million people - will face acute food insecurity from November, according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report issued today by the Food Security and Agriculture Cluster of Afghanistan, co-led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN and the UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ.
Algiers ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has warmly welcomed a contribution of € 400,000 (US$ 478,000) from the government of France (EU) to support Sahrawi refugee children in Algeria. This is the second year that France has made this substantial donation.
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Dubai ¨C UAE: The need to better anticipate climate shocks and invest in early humanitarian action was spotlighted at a high-level meeting hosted by the Embassy of Sweden in the United Arab Emirates at Dubai Expo 2020. Participants called for public and private sectors to work together to put anticipatory action at the center of humanitarian policies and strategies.
JOHANNESBURG¨C The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Executive Secretary, His Excellency, Mr. Elias Magosi, welcomed to Botswana and SADC, the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Regional Director, Dr. Menghestab Haile on 20 October and congratulated him on his recent appointment.
DAKAR - As conflicts and rising food prices continue to weaken the food security situation in the Western and Central African region, the UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a euros 8.4 million contribution from France aiming to respond to the emergency food and nutrition needs of vulnerable populations in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal.
MANILA PHILIPPINES¨C The world faces an exponential increase in hunger fuelled by the climate crisis if urgent global action to help communities adapt to climatic shocks and stresses is ignored, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has warned on World Food Day.
DAMASCUS ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has welcomed a new contribution of EUR 3 million from the European Union to scale up cash-based assistance to approximately 30,000 vulnerable and food insecure Syrians who are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance.
Accra ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a contribution of JPY499 million (USD 4.5 million) from the Government of Japan, for a public-private partnership project which aims to make quality nutrition and health services available to 250,000 people in Ghana.
BANJUL-The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a USD1.5 million (JPY 164 million) contribution from the Government of Japan to provide nutrition response to 40,000 vulnerable food insecure people in The Gambia.
SAO TOME ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is increasing support to 25,000 school-aged children enrolled in the National School Feeding and Health Programme (PNASE) in Sao Tome and Principe thanks to a USD700,000 contribution from the Chellaram Foundation.
Accra ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has provided the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) with tablets to digitize the monitoring of the school feeding programme. The initiative aims to reinforce programme efficiency and implementation by enabling real-time tracking of daily attendance and feeding in 260 pilot schools in all 16 regions of the country.
Yaound¨¦ ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today welcomes a USD 1.83 million (more than one billion FCFA) contribution from the Government of Japan to provide food and nutrition assistance to over 185,000 children, women and men in the Far North, North, Adamawa, East, North-West and South-West regions of Cameroon.
16 October 2021, Baghdad ¨C Today on World Food Day, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) renew their commitment to help reform food systems in Iraq, calling for action to tackle water shortages and climate change.
DUBAI ¨C Monday18 Oct. 2021: In celebration of World Food Day, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ in partnership with the Australian Department for Foreign Affairs and Trade hosted ¡°Stop the Waste¡± event, with a focus on the climate change crisis. The event took place at the Australian pavilion, mobility district at EXPO 2020 on Saturday, OCT. 16th with the aim to mobilize collective action by all stakeholders to reduce food waste.
Rome/London ¨C The Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a contribution of US$ 2.75 million from Khalsa Aid International as part of a three-year programme to support school children in Yemen and refugees from the Tigray Crisis
ABUJA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warns that it may soon be forced to cut food rations to more than half a million women, men and children in north-eastern Nigeria unless urgent funding is secured to continue life-saving operations in crisis-ridden Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states.
