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2020 13 May

ECLAC proposes a basic income to help most vulnerable population overcome the COVID19’s effects

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) presented a new report on the social challenges of the crisis stemming from COVID-19. In a context of low growth, a significant increase in poverty, extreme poverty and inequality is foreseen in Latin America and...

2020 07 April

FAO warns of the impact of COVID-19 on school feeding in Latin America and the Caribbean

David Martin | Child nutrition Education SUN Country Network, SUN UN Network 0

Among the measures taken by the Governments of many countries in Latin America and the Caribbean in the face of the rapid expansion of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is the closure of schools and, therefore, the suspension of school feeding programs. These programs currently benefit...

2019 05 December

Panorama 2019: rise in hunger and obesity in Latin America and the Caribbean

David Martin | Child nutrition Food systems Overweight and obesity SUN Country Network, SUN UN Network 0

The prevalence of adult obesity in Latin America and the Caribbean has tripled since 1975, affecting one in four adults in a region where hunger has grown once again, reaching 42.5 million people, according to the Panorama of Food and Nutritional Security 2019. The Food and...

2019 21 October

Global Hunger Index 2019: the challenge of hunger and climate change

David Martin | Global initiatives Research SUN Civil Society Network 0

The 2019 Global Hunger Index (GHI) shows that while the world has made gradual progress in reducing hunger on a global scale since 2000, this progress has been uneven. Hunger persists in many countries, and in some instances progress is even being reversed. The GHI...

2019 14 August

Tackling the food crisis in Haiti with the support of the European Union

David Martin | Child nutrition Humanitarian field SUN Donor Network 0

The European Union has released EUR 9 million in humanitarian aid in response to the deteriorating food and nutrition situation in Haiti. The humanitarian aid will cover the basic food and nutritional needs of more than 130,000 people living in the worst affected areas. ‘For the...

2019 26 February

Second Global Conference of the Sustainable Food Systems of the UN in Costa Rica

David Martin | SUN Country Network, SUN Donor Network 0

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...

2019 13 February

Haiti and EU launch Food Security and Nutrition Programme to combat malnutrition

David Martin | SUN Country Network, SUN Donor Network 0

The Prime Minister, Jean Henri Céant, and the EU Ambassador, Vincent Degert, officially launched the Food Security and Nutrition Programme (SAN) under the 11th EDF. This includes the Multisectoral Food Security and Nutrition Programme and the Pro-Resilience Programme, with funding of 40 million and 10...

2018 17 November

Inequality exacerbates hunger, malnutrition and obesity in Latin America and the Caribbean

David Martin | SUN Country Network, SUN UN Network 0

Hunger, malnutrition, lack of micronutrients, overweight and obesity have greater impact on people with lower income, women, indigenous people, Afro-descendants and rural families in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to a new UN report. The Panorama of Food and Nutrition Security 2018, focuses on the close...

2018 01 November

The Parliamentary Front against Hunger in Haiti seeks to refine the draft law on school feeding

David Martin | Parliamentarians SUN Country Network, SUN UN Network 0

The Parliamentary Front against Hunger (PFH) in Haiti, together with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), organized a workshop in Port-au-Prince on 10 October to report on departmental consultations regarding the draft law on school feeding with the aim of finalizing...

2018 06 March

Conflicts and weather patterns strain food security around the globe

David Martin | Agriculture Food systems Info systems SUN Country Network, SUN UN Network 0

On 5 March 2018 the Trade and Markets Division of FAO issued the Crop Prospects and Food Situation report. According to the report, some 37 countries are in need of external assistance for food, unchanged from three months ago. ...

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