World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
Food Security
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The COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating hunger worldwide
One year on from the start of the coronavirus pandemic, many of the fears about the increase in hunger and poverty have been confirmed. Analyses by international institutions including the United Nations
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Starving Tigray: how armed conflict and mass atrocities have destroyed an Ethiopian region’s economy and food system and are threatening famine
This special report from the World Peace Foundation documents how Ethiopian and Eritrean belligerents in the war in Tigray have comprehensively dismantled the region’s economy and food system. It provide
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Caribbean COVID-19 food security and livelihoods impact survey
The COVID-19 pandemic is having far-reaching impacts on how people earn a living and meet critical needs. The Caribbean COVID-19 Food Security and Livelihoods Impact Survey was launched by CARICOM to rapidly
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Water productivity, the yield gap, and nutrition: the case of Ethiopia
Food system transformation is needed to address the hundreds of millions of people without adequate access to water or food for a healthy life. Nutrition and malnutrition are inextricably linked to water
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COVID-19: Emergence, spread and its impact on the Indian economy and migrant workers
This study examines the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the related nationwide lockdown on the Indian economy, particularly on food systems. It also takes up an important issue of millions of migrant
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A long food movement: transforming food systems by 2045
The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) has released a new report in collaboration with the ETC Group: 'A Long Food Movement: Transforming Food Systems by 2045'. It map
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Food security and vulnerability assessment in Armenia
WFP carried out its second nationwide assessments during 2020 to understand how households' food security levels were impacted by COVID-19 and the conflict situation, to feed into policy dialogue with
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Hunger hotspots: FAO-WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity March to July 2021 outlook
Famine is already on the doorstep of millions of families in 20 countries, two UN agencies warned in a report that calls for urgent action to avert rising hunger due to factors such as conflict, climate
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Price rise of essential commodities – causes & effects: Standing Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution (2020-2021)
A Parliament Standing Committee, comprising MPs of parties that have been vehemently opposing the three new farm laws, has asked for implementation of Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020 — one
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The impact of disasters and crises on agriculture and food security
Agriculture absorbs the bulk of the financial losses and damages wrought by disasters which have grown in frequency, intensity, and complexity, says FAO in a new report. At no other point in history have