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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Integrated Food Security Phase Classification: Technical manual version 3.0
<p>The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is a common global scale for classifying the severity and magnitude of food insecurity and malnutrition.<a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/food-security-nutrition.pdf"
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Foreign direct investment in the African food and agriculture sector: trends, determinants and impacts
In this paper, seek to answer three research questions: (1) What is the pattern of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the African food and agriculture sector in the last 15 years? (2) What are the drivers
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Biodiversity loss is a development issue: a rapid review of the evidence
From genes to micro-organisms to top predators and even whole ecosystems, depend on biodiversity for everything from clean air and water to medicines and secure food supplies. Yet human activities are
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Gambia: Farmers in Gunjur Benefit From Skills Development, Climate Resilient Project
Farmers in Gunjur have started benefitting from an agricultural initiative spearheaded by two local youth. The initiative seeks to provide farmers with skills to help them increase agricultural production
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Zimbabwe: Manicaland Faces Food Deficit After Drought, Cyclone Idai
Manicaland Province has sent out an SOS for food assistance for its people following a poor cropping season which was exacerbated by Cyclone Idai-induced rains that destroyed the remaining crop. The
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UN seeks to feed 500,000 school children in South Sudan as hunger bites
For 18-year-old Rebecca Adara, a plate of boiled wholegrain sorghum is enough to keep her strong and attentive all day round at school. "The feeding program has helped me to concentrate on my studies
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Nigeria: 'Crises in Rural Areas Threaten Progress in Hunger, Poverty Reduction'
The 2019 Global Food Policy Report (GFPR) released yesterday by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), has raised concerns about threats to progress recorded in improved food and nutrition
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2019 Global Food Policy Report
IFPRI’s flagship report reviews the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2018, and considers challenges and opportunities for 2019. This year’s Global Food Policy Report highlights
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Kenya: Drought in Northwest Leaves Thousands Near Starvation
Kenya's government and aid groups are sending food to Kenya's northwest region, where thousands of Kenyans are starving due to droughts. "There is hunger and a lot of suffering in the ground," Kenyan
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More than 40,000 households facing hunger in Zimbabwe after Cyclone Idai
No fewer than 40,000 households are facing food shortages after cyclone Idai ravaged the eastern and southern parts of Zimbabwe recently, a cabinet minister on Tuesday said. Local Government, Public