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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Poorest countries bear the brunt as aid levels fall for second successive year
Experts have warned that the fight against global poverty has taken a backward step after the publication of new figures showing foreign aid has fallen for a second successive year. Aid levels dropped
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Climate Risk Profile: Climate risks in Food for Peace geographies- Kenya
Northern Kenya’s arid and semiarid lands (ASALs) are food- and water-insecure regions dependent on limited and highly variable rainfall. Rising temperatures, heat waves, changes in seasonal rainfall and
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Uganda: Prepare for Famine, Government Tells Ugandans
Kampala — The government has warned of impending famine in most parts of the country, cautioning traders to limit food exports and families to start food rationing. Mr Christopher Kibanzanga, the State
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After cyclone and cholera, Mozambique now battles hunger
Mozambique's first disaster was a cyclone. The second has been cholera. Now hunger could be the third. The raging floodwaters that made a large part of central Mozambique a vast inland sea are draining,
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Unbundling the Slack in Private Sector Investment – Transforming Agriculture Sector Productivity and Linkages to Poverty Reduction
The new Kenya economic update shows that boosting agricultural productivity can help reduce poverty, particularly in rural areas The report notes that increasing agricultural productivity and
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Long dry spell to raise cost of living — report
The continued dry spell across several parts of the country could depress economic growth and lead to an increase in inflation over the next one year. This is according to the latest edition of the
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International team decodes the durum wheat genome
An international consortium has sequenced the entire genome of durum wheat -- the source of semolina for pasta, a food staple for the world's population, according to an article published today in Nature
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Climate risk profile: climate risks in food for peace geographies- Kenya
Northern Kenya’s arid and semiarid lands (ASALs) are food- and water-insecure regions dependent on limited and highly variable rainfall. Rising temperatures, heat waves, changes in seasonal rainfall and
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Ten years after the global food crisis, rural women still bear the brunt of poverty and hunger
Oxfam’s new report “Ten Years after the Global Food Crisis, Rural Women Still Bear the Brunt of Poverty and Hunger” analyses the reforms implemented since the food price crisis in 2007-2008, and highlights
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More than 113 milion people suffer 'acute hunger'- UN
More than 113 million people across 53 countries experienced "acute hunger" last year because of wars and climate disasters, with Africa the worst-hit region, the UN said on Tuesday. Yemen, the Democratic