This Bulletin provides an overview of the climate situation and impacts on agriculture and food security from October to December 2022 as well as the climate outlook from February to April 2023. The bulletin was jointly prepared by Government partners and Â鶹ÊÓƵ (in English and Bahasa Indonesia).
The evaluation was commissioned by the independent Office of Evaluation to provide evaluative evidence for accountability and learning to inform the design of the next Â鶹ÊÓƵ country strategic plan (CSP) in Chad.
In drought affected areas of Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia, 22 million people are acutely food insecure and 5.1 million children are acutely malnourished. In 2023, Â鶹ÊÓƵ is urgently calling for USD 2.4 billion to help avert a major humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa and support 8.8 million people affected by the drought with regular life-saving relief.
Series of five country case studies (Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Fiji, Madagascar, Zambia) on the design of microinsurance programmes and their linkages with social protection.
This publication will provide information on rice fortification, training of rice millers on rice fortification to ensure optimum knowledge, and utilization by millers to enable them to produce quality assured fortified rice.
Ahead of the March-May 2021 rainy season, forecasts indicated below-average rainfall was highly likely in the Somali region in Somalia. Â鶹ÊÓƵ and its partners implemented two anticipatory actions, anticipatory cash and early warning information.
Since 2019, Â鶹ÊÓƵ has been working with the Government of Mozambique to introduce anticipatory actions based on a forecast-based financing mechanism. Mozambique is improving its forecast systems to anticipate climate shocks and to prepare the Government and communities. Â鶹ÊÓƵ is sharing the lessons learned of its partnership with the Government for the implementation of anticipatory actions.
This 3-pager provides an overview of Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s integrated resilience-building approach across the Sahel. It summarizes the latest key achievements and outcomes and gives an overview of partnerships and coalitions needed to achieve long-term change.
Bolstering nationally owned anticipatory systems to reduce climate impacts on food security
Climate extremes are a key driver of food insecurity. Traditional humanitarian response systems need to evolve from crisis response to forward-looking risk management. Recognizing the urgency of the problem, Â鶹ÊÓƵ works with governments in Latin America and the Caribbean that are investing in early warning systems to better anticipate and respond to hazards.
This study includes an overview of indigenous knowledge system indicators for climate forecasting in these districts, as well as key recommendations on using climate-related indigenous knowledge services to support anticipatory action in Zimbabwe.
Lack or near absence of minimum support price is the key limitation for the production of small millet crops in the country. Bringing small millets under MSP will create a supportive environment that has long term dividends ranging from sustainable food and nutrition security to protection of environment.
Despite being a staple food in semi-arid tropics and drought-prone regions in India, millets consumption is low as people perceive it as traditional, coarse and of low aspirational value. Investment through increased awareness, availability of quality products that appeal to people¡¯s taste, acceptance of millets as climate smart nutritious diet will not only enhance dietary diversity but also will put pressure on improving supply.
Inadequate availability of efficient millet processing equipment in our country, is one of the key limitations of the millet ecosystem. It can be addressed by encouraging research and development to bring highly competitive processing equipment in the market.
Millets are classified as ¡°coarse grains¡± and are a part of staple diet in some parts of rural India. While millets are nutritionally superior to cereals, their consumption is skewed to subsistence farmers or families belonging to lower income strata. There has been newfound demand in urban markets, however it is yet not significant to accelerate movement across value-chain.
A three-day regional conference on the theme of improving humanitarian response and strengthening food systems in climate fragilities and disasters was organised from 30 November to 2 December by the National Institute of Disaster Management and United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ with the thematic session partners, Global network of civil society organisations for disaster reduction and U-Inspire Alliance.
This document on good practices compiles and collates innovations in THR programmes in various States and Union Territories. Aspects related to production, distribution, hygiene, labelling, packaging, monitoring, and quality assurance have been reviewed to generate a catalogue of good practices.
The study aims to draw a minimum sample across five states to capture beneficiary perspectives on the pulses received through the Govt. of India¡¯s Pulses scheme during the period of September 2018 to August 2019.
