Pressing need to upscale both food aid and agricultural livelihoods assistance to head off a worst-case scenario
ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR: With each day that passes, more lives are at stake as hunger tightens its grip in southern Madagascar. This is the stark warning from two United Nations agencies, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), as they seek to draw international attention to a humanitarian crisis that risks being invisible.
CAIRO ¨C Marking the Holy month of Ramadan and Eid Al-Fitr, the UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has launched a campaign providing Muslims around the world with the opportunity to give their Zakat to support Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s critical work in combatting malnutrition.
KIGALI - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes €500,000 from the European Union (EU) to provide technical support to Rwanda¡¯s COVID-19 recovery efforts.
With this contribution, Â鶹ÊÓƵ will support Government efforts to ensure that social protection is expanded to the most vulnerable and food insecure Rwandans and responds to the unique challenges presented by the pandemic.
SEOUL/ROME ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ has today welcomed a US$1.25 million funding allocation from the Republic of Korea that will help keep humanitarian flights running in four countries as humanitarian needs continue to worsen.
DILI ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a contribution of US$200,000 from the Government of New Zealand towards its response for families affected by the worst flooding Timor-Leste has seen in decades.
ADDIS ABABA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a US$400,000 contribution from the Government of the Republic of Korea to our operations in Ethiopia¡¯s Tigray region to help provide food and nutrition support for thousands of people displaced by conflict.
ROME ¨C The number of people facing acute food insecurity and needing urgent life and livelihood-saving assistance has hit a five-year high in 2020 in countries beset by food crises, an annual report launched today by the Global Network Against Food Crises (GNAFC) - an international alliance of the UN, the EU, governmental and non-governmental agencies working to tackle food crises together - has found. Conflict, economic shocks ¨C including due to COVID-19, extreme weather ¨C pushed at least 155 million people into acute food insecurity in 2020.
TUNIS ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the Center of Arab Women for Training and Research (CAWTAR) are launching a study to discover how best to adjust national policies for the economic and social empowerment of rural women and girls, especially in times of crisis such as the pandemic COVID-19.
BEIRUT ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) received a generous €1 million contribution from the Italian Cooperation in support of its school meals program. As schools remain closed in Lebanon, Â鶹ÊÓƵ is providing monthly assistance in the form of food parcels for nearly 133,000 vulnerable people.
Kabul, Afghanistan ¨C One-in-three Afghans are acutely food insecure, according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) assessment report released by the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and its partners.
DUSHANBE ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the Agency for Forestry of the Republic of Tajikistan have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to work together to build Government capacity to adapt to climate change
The online public consultation will feed into the organizations¡¯ strategic outlooks and provide a platform to share ideas to accelerate achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Rome - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) have launched an online public consultation to obtain inputs on how the UN agencies can collaborate in key areas in the coming years.
This is a summary of what was said by Â鶹ÊÓƵ Senior Director of Operations Amer Daoudi ¨C to whom quoted text may be attributed ¨C at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.
GENEVA - I¡¯m currently in Madagascar. I arrived a couple of days ago to see first-hand the deteriorating humanitarian situation in southern Madagascar. The issue is no longer about how bad it is - it is extremely bad.
ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR ¨C The unrelenting drought in southern Madagascar is forcing hundreds of thousands of people to the brink of famine, warns the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ). With acute malnutrition rates continuing to rise, urgent action is required to address this unfolding humanitarian crisis.
YEREVAN ¨C With funding from the British Embassy in Yerevan, and as part of the ¡°Wholegrain Wheat Value Chain¡± project to boost nutrition, Â鶹ÊÓƵ organized interactive practical training sessions for 200 participants from 30 communities in Tavush to increase knowledge about whole grain wheat bread and bakery production.
SUVA, Fiji ¨C On 26 April, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) flew vital medical supplies to Kiribati via the Pacific Humanitarian Air Service, which Â鶹ÊÓƵ manages on behalf of the humanitarian community. This air delivery demonstrates Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s continued support to the COVID-19 response in the region.
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/PARIS ¨C The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) have launched a global partnership to engage the business community and foster strategic collaborations at regional and national levels in support of the Sustainable Development Goals, specifically Goal 2: Zero Hunger
YANGON, Myanmar ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is to mount a new food assistance operation, targeting up to 2 million vulnerable people in the poor townships in Myanmar¡¯s main cities and other areas where population displacement has recently taken place.
PEMBA, CABO DELGADO ¨C Mozambique¡¯s Cabo Delgado province is in the grips of a spiralling crisis as thousands of people flee their homes amidst violence, warns the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ).
JERUSALEM ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) started delivering fortified wheat flour for 72,000 people of the most vulnerable families in Gaza and the West Bank people for nine months, thanks to a US$4 million grant from the Russian Federation.
CAIRO - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) launched this weekend a Ramadan campaign on social media to raise awareness on the suffering of 690 million hungry people around the world.
PANAMA CITY¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has reached an agreement to commence operations in Venezuela with the priority of serving the most vulnerable children.
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.
DAKAR ¨C Millions of families in West and Central Africa are growing more hungry and desperate by the day as food prices skyrocket ¨C stoking a widening hunger emergency in a region engulfed by conflict and the socioeconomic fallout from COVID-19, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warned today, noting that immediate action is required to prevent a catastrophe.
