Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Only cactus grows along the dirt road fringing arid fields on the way to the isolated village of Bas des Moustiques, on the outskirts of the northwestern city of Port-de-Paix in Haiti. A lack of rain in recent months has killed crops in Haiti's poorest region, and left people struggling …
The World Food Programme and Sindh government jointly launched a Rs 600 million project to assist around 348,000 children, pregnant and lactating women suffering malnutrition to prevent stunting and micronutrient deficiencies. The project initiated by Sindh government's health department, in collaboration with WFP and World Health Organisation would help prevent …
World Food Organization (WFP) has distributed almost US $ 10.8 million among flood affectees including US $ 4.7 million under Food For Work (FFW) and US $6.1 million under Food For Cash (FFC) program to improve community infrastructure and rehabilitate their livelihoods. In FATA, most of the cereals distributed were …
World Food Programme (WFP) has supplied relief and food assistance to approximately 972,000 returnees and displaced persons in six districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province and four agencies of FATA region. Talking to APP Communication Officer of WFP, Amjad Jamal on Sunday said that WFP has established four distribution points …
The government of Sri Lanka has signed a US$ 8 million agreement with the World Food Programme (WFP) to build resilience in adapting to adverse weather conditions. The agreement for 'Addressing Climate Change Impacts on Marginalized Agricultural Communities Living in the Mahaweli River Basin of Sri Lanka' was reportedly signed …
Nov 27, Colombo: The government of Japan has granted approximately Rs.282 million (Japanese Yen 220 million) to Sri Lanka as food grant assistance through the World Food Program (WFP) to support the ongoing School Meals Program in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka. The Ministry of Economic Development will oversee …
Following is a list of some of the assistance offered to the Philippines from around the world after a devastating typhoon hit the center of the country last weekend. - THE INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS AND RED CRESCENT MOVEMENT is appealing for 87 million Swiss francs ($94.6 million) to provide 100,000 …
Japanese Ambassador Shiro Sadoshima and World Food Programme (WFP) Country Representative Christa Radet yesterday visited southern Satkhira district to see impact of disaster resilience building programme. WFP has undertaken the programme to help communities enhance resilience to natural disasters and the effects of climate change while Japan has funded it …
A welfare project entitled "Improving Maternal and Child Nutrition (IMCN)" launched in August, 2011 runs smoothly creating positive impacts to the undernourished mothers and children in the district. The goal of the IMCN intervention is to reduce prevalence of under nutrition among women and children to break the intergenerational cycle …
Zimbabwe faces its worst food shortages in four years following a drought and poor harvest, the U.N. World Food Programme said on Tuesday, a month after veteran President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF disputed re-election. The agency said it was working with the government and other international aid organisations to provide food …
The Korean Government will provide $3.0 million support to Bangladesh to improve its poor people's access to food in the disaster-prone regions. The fund, to be disbursed under a three-year project titled "KOICA-WFP Food for New Village (FFNV)", commenced this year, will also enable the poor to take advantage of …
Despite having 14 million acres under crop cultivation in Sindh, over 71 per cent households in the province are food insecure — the highest level of food insecurity among the provinces and region, it emerged on Sunday. Of these food insecure households, 34pc are food insecure with moderate hunger and …
Japan has confirmed a contribution of US$5.46 million (Yen 470 million, Tk 42 crore) to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Bangladesh, reports UNB. More than 400,000 people in the most disaster-prone upazilas in twelve of the poorest districts of Bangladesh will benefit from the Japanese contribution, which …
The Netherlands government has provided US$ 3 million (Tk 23 crore) to the UN World Food Programme (WFP) to help people living in disaster-prone districts of southwest Bangladesh get better prepared to face disasters in the future, reports UNB. The contribution will enable the government and WFP to support 7,000 …
This report analyzes comprehensive 2009 data on government social protection programs in 35 countries in Asia and the Pacific. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) used its Social Protection Index to help assess the nature and the effectiveness of these programs, as well as to facilitate cross-country comparisons. This project based …
Thirty thousand ultra poor women, supported by a four-year cash-transfer project, have moved out of extreme poverty in the disaster prone areas of three northern districts of Bangladesh, a report revealed yesterday. The “Food Security for the Ultra Poor” (FSUP) project initially supplied each of the women with Tk 14,000 …
More than four million South Sudanese, a third of the African country’s population, may go hungry at some point in 2013 despite a higher harvest last year, the United Nations said on Friday. South Sudan’s cereal deficit will be 371,000 tonnes, just over one-third of its total cereal requirement, despite …
Dolpa, Humla, Bajura, Bajhang, and Darchula districts are likely to experience a deteriorating food security situation, according to a report. The twenty-five Village Development Committees (VDCs) of Dailekh and Rukum that are currently under Phase II require close monitoring as the situation might further deteriorate to Phase III — highly …
The food security situation has deteriorated as compared to the previous quarter though the level of food insecurity was within a range of seasonal deterioration that is typically observed during the lean season, according to a report. According to the NeKSAP District Food Security Network (DFSN), out of the total …
One out of every eight people in the world is chronically undernourished, the United Nations' food agencies said on Tuesday, warning that progress to reduce hunger has slowed since 2007/08 when high food prices sparked riots in several poor countries. In their latest report on food insecurity, the UN agencies …
