Food waste index report 2024
<p>The world wasted an estimated 19 per cent of the food produced globally in 2022, or about 1.05 billion metric tons, according to this new report by the UNEP.</p>
Food Policy
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Nigeria: UN Raises $24 Million to Avert Famine in N/E Nigeria
The new United Nations fund set up to tackle the looming famine in crisis-ridden areas in Nigeria and avoid a deepening humanitarian crisis has reached $24 million. The Nigeria Humanitarian Fund (NHF)
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Hunger to hit emergency levels in Ethiopia despite rains
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hunger is likely to reach emergency levels in Ethiopia and the number in need of food aid will rise beyond the current 7.7 million, experts said, as drought has decimated
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Djibouti: EU Support for WFP Adds Freedom of Choice to Refugees' Food Assistance in Djibouti
Funding from the European Commission's Humanitarian Aid department (ECHO) has been instrumental in enabling WFP to provide an innovative package of cash assistance alongside food rations to refugees and
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Nigeria's hungriest face starvation as aid funds dry up in northeast- UN
Hundreds of thousands of Nigerians could starve to death in the famine-threatened northeast due to lack of aid funds, the United Nations warned on Tuesday. It said almost half a million of the region's
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Gambia: Nianija District Faces Food Insecurity
The people of Nianija District have launched an appeal to The Gambia government through the Agriculture minister to help construct a road to enable them access their abandoned rice fields or else face
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Kenya: Drought Hit Counties Seek Ways to Fight Hunger
Drought and hunger stricken counties in northern Kenya are now embracing technology in agriculture as they seek to improve their peoples' livelihoods. Representatives of the pastoral counties who form
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Kenya: Drought Hit Counties Seek Ways to Fight Hunger
Drought and hunger stricken counties in northern Kenya are now embracing technology in agriculture as they seek to improve their peoples' livelihoods. Representatives of the pastoral counties who form
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Somalis needing food aid increase to 6.7 million: United Nations
MOGADISHU (Xinhua) -- An estimated number of people in need of humanitarian assistance in Somalia has increased to 6.7 million, more than half the population of the country, the UN said on Wednesday.
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UN seeks $165.7 million to help 3 million Kenyans needing food and water
More than 2.6 million Kenyans are severely food insecure and this number is rapidly rising. During the lean season (July to September) many families will experience Emergency acute food insecurity, just
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Uganda: Cost of Feeding Family Up 30 Per Cent in 2017
Kampala — A Ugandan family of six that relies on groceries on average now requires about Shs36,000 to afford breakfast, lunch and dinner for its members, according to a survey by this newspaper. This