Guatemala will strengthen its family agriculture programmes and its fight against malnutrition with a fleet of vehicles and lorries acquired using financial support from the European Union (EU), an official source reported today. The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food (MAGA, acronym in Spanish) explained...
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Lao PDR will benefit from USD 72 million in new financing, under three projects approved today by the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors, which focus on reducing malnutrition in children and improving public resource use and service delivery. “One in every three children in Lao...
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In 2015, 159 million children under the age of five were chronically malnourished or stunted, underscoring a massive global health and economic development challenge (UNICEF, WHO, and World Bank 2015). In 2012—in an effort to rally the international community around improving nutrition—the 176 members of...
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* Originally published by Nutrition International In the Manggarai Barat district of East Nusa Tenggara, midwife Rosina Flaviana Susianawati, popularly known as Osi, is leaving no stone unturned to ensure that women in her region have a healthy pregnancy, free from anaemia. Anaemia during pregnancy increases...
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The World Bank approved an International Development Association (IDA) grant of USD 50 million to support the government of Benin’s efforts to reduce stunting and improve early childhood development outcomes in children under five years of age. The five-year Early Years Nutrition and Child Development Project...
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* Originally published by IFAD About 34,000 vulnerable rural households in Sierra Leone will benefit from a new USD 72.6 million project that aims to improve food and nutrition security and raise the incomes of smallholder farmers by modernizing agriculture, increasing production and developing markets. The financing...
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The Kingdom of Denmark through the Royal Danish Embassy in Kabul and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have joined forces to provide emergency assistance to more than 142,000 drought-affected vulnerable livestock herders and pastoralists and their families in six of the worst drought-affected provinces of Afghanistan. Under this project, vulnerable livestock herders in areas hardest hit by drought will receive high-quality...
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Japan has announced its contribution of USD 10.6 million to fight malnutrition, improve livelihoods and increase resilience to natural disasters in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh and Balochistan provinces of Pakistan. This is part of a partnership that the Government of Japan signed with the United...
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More than 150 specialists representing public and private entities, as well as NGOs, participated in the 2nd Global Conference of the Sustainable Food Systems Program of the United Nations (UN) One Planet Network, which was held at the Headquarters of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation...
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The Government of Guatemala is taking up the challenge of the “Crecer Sano” project, aimed at reducing malnutrition, which will be funded with a USD 100 million loan from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD). “It is socially profitable to invest in children’s...
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