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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Climate change has likely already affected global food production
<p>Crop yields are projected to decrease under future climate conditions, and recent research suggests that yields have already been impacted. However, current impacts on a diversity of crops subnationally
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FAO helps countries measure climate’s impacts on agriculture
In developing countries, the agriculture sector absorbs 26 percent of the total economic damage and loss caused by climate-induced disasters, according to one recent FAO study . Smallholder farmers, which
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African farmers urged to embrace innovative agriculture to boost food security
African experts on Wednesday called on farmers and investors in agribusiness to embrace technological innovations to improve efficiency of food production and eliminate hunger. The agro-trade experts
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£33m of UK funding to be spent on ‘super crops’ that are resilient to climate change
Tens of millions of pounds are to be spent on developing “super crops” to improve diets in poor countries in the face of climate change, the government has said. Around £33m of new UK aid funding will
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Regional overview of food security and nutrition in the Near East and North Africa 2018
Hunger in the Near East and North Africa region (NENA) continues to rise as conflicts and protracted crises have spread and worsened since 2011, threatening the region’s efforts to achieve the 2030 Agenda
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Somalia: Close to 2 Million to Face Food Crisis in Somalia-UN
A picture of past drought which saw several animals die due to lack of pasture and water The United Nations now say that close to 2 million people are at risk f starvation in Somalia. Stéphane Dujarric,
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Lesotho Needs $14 Million to Buy Food for Almost 500,000 People
Lesotho needs 203.73 million maloti ($14 million) for food aid for almost half a million people. The southern African nation’s government needs money to buy 25,255 tons of grain, Temeki Ts’olo, the
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Nigeria: Stakeholders Advocate Working Policies to Reduce Malnutrition
Stakeholders in the food industry have advocated the enactment of adequate policies to ensure food fortification and reduce malnutrition in Nigeria. Speaking at the National Fortification Alliance (NFA)
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Scaling up climate information services through public-private partnership business models: An example from northern Ghana
Between 2011 and 2017, CCAFS West Africa piloted how the dissemination of climate information services (CIS) to farmers in its climate-smart village sites (Lawra and Jirapa) in Ghana could help them avert
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The effects of climate extremes on global agricultural yields
<p>Climate extremes, such as droughts or heat waves, can lead to harvest failures and threaten the livelihoods of agricultural producers and the food security of communities worldwide.<a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/agricultural-yields-climate-extremes.pdf"