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This publication highlights why millets should be included in social welfare schemes to increase their availability and therefore per household consumption. To maintain the regular supply of millets under any of the schemes, the quality and quantity of raw millets should be monitored continuously.

To develop stronger national resilience to disasters and the climate crisis, Â鶹ÊÓƵ supports the Royal Government of Bhutan¡¯s (RGoB) DRR initiatives in the five areas of governance and coordination, data preparedness, logistics, emergency telecommunications, and food security.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ, through its Country Strategic Plan 2019-2023, focuses on a food system and resilience approach in its strategic partnerships with the RGoB, supporting Bhutan in enhancing food security and nutrition, and a transformative food system that is carbon-neutral while also being economically viable.

In Bhutan, Â鶹ÊÓƵ partners with the Ministries of Health (MoH), Education (MoE), and Agriculture and Forests (MoAF) to create an enabling environment for healthier school nutrition and the improved nutritional status of Bhutanese school children.

Bhutan is currently experiencing a transition in nutrition and food consumption patterns among its populations, especially school children and adolescents. Â鶹ÊÓƵ partners with the Ministry of Education is currently in the process of developing a social behaviour change strategy for nutrition in Bhutan

As a land-locked country in the eastern Himalayas, Bhutan has limited access and connectivity. Â鶹ÊÓƵ prioritises its efforts in strengthening government capacity towards achieving long-term results and critical goals focused on national development, humanitarian logistics, school feeding and nutritional development, and agricultural resilience

Through the generous support of the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), key achievements have been made in Bhutan¡¯s National School Feeding and Nutrition Programme, especially in improved dietary diversity in school meals, procurement of locally produced nutritious foods, and the refurbishment or construction of school kitchens and stores.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ is collaborating with a range of public and private sector partners to develop climate risk finance programmes that help governments and vulnerable households to anticipate, absorb and rapidly recover from climate shocks. This Brief provides an overview of these programmes and how Â鶹ÊÓƵ is deploying integrated climate risk financing mechanisms that allow for predictable anticipatory and early responses, significantly reducing the human suffering and capital losses from weather and climate-related disasters.

Lessons learned from a Â鶹ÊÓƵ and UNAIDS initiative to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 in western and central Africa

Lessons learned from a Â鶹ÊÓƵ and UNAIDS initiative to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 in western and central Africa

Lessons learned from a Â鶹ÊÓƵ and UNAIDS initiative to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 in western and central Africa

Lessons learned from a Â鶹ÊÓƵ and UNAIDS initiative to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 in western and central Africa

Lessons learned from a Â鶹ÊÓƵ and UNAIDS initiative to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 in western and central Africa

The monthly market dashboard presents price trends for staple commodities and cash crops most consumed by Palestinians. In this two-month update, special attention will be given to the impact of the Ukraine crisis on the Palestinian and global economy.

A legacy of deforestation has led to a climate breakdown in Sierra Leone. This is threatening food security and incomes among both rural and urban populations

This Bulletin provides an overview of the ongoing global trends on food availability and prices amidst the current challenging environment. It reviews Indonesia¡¯s current macroeconomic landscape, including implications on the economy due to the global disruptions. In addition, it includes an analysis of food prices at national and regional level, as well as a summary of the Government¡¯s responses to price shocks.

A small case study was also carried out in three urban villages in Jakarta to gather information on the impacts of increased food prices on poor urban families to complement the secondary data analysis.

The brief outlines evidence underscoring the critical role of food security in a global AIDS response. Food security has been proven yet again to reduce HIV risk and negative coping strategies, especially among adolescent girls and young women.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ spends more than US$745 million annually in East Africa. This spending is vital to the humanitarian operations, and also affects local economies, potentially creating large income and production impacts.

To support increased emphasis on food systems approach, and in complement of the Local Economy Wide Impact Evaluation (LEWIE), Â鶹ÊÓƵ Regional Bureau for East Africa (RBN) commissioned this ¡°thematic evaluation of supply chain outcomes in the food system in Eastern Africa¡±.

Supporting the 2014 United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Resolution (A/RES/69/237), the evaluation function of the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is working with countries and partners across the globe on national evaluation capacity development (NECD).