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2021 05 May

Small-scale farmers of Haiti to receive help for food production and COVID-19

The Government of Haiti and the International Fund for Agricultural Development of the United Nations (IFAD) signed a financing agreement for a project that will help Haitian farmers recover from the impact of Covid-19 and increase staple food production. The project will kickstart rapid recovery...

2021 04 May

African Development Bank, IFAD and partners redouble efforts to stop hunger in Africa and strengthen food security

David Martin | Agriculture Climate food security Food systems Nutrition SUN Country Network, SUN Donor Network 0

The African Development Bank and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), in partnership with the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) and the CGIAR System Organization, today pledged to work closely with African leaders to address rising hunger on the continent and shore...

2021 03 May

The African Development Fund supporting Ethiopia to boost nutrition and end child stunting

David Martin | Child nutrition food security Malnutrition Nutrition SUN Country Network, SUN Donor Network 0

The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund has approved a grant of USD31.2 million to the Government of Ethiopia to increase access to multi-sectoral nutritional services for children under-five years, by boosting access to services for improved health, a more diverse and nutritious food, ...

2021 28 April

USAID announces increased assistance for El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras

David Martin | Climate COVID19 food security Humanitarian field Malnutrition SUN Country Network, SUN Donor Network 0

Vice President Harris announced that the United States is providing USD310 million in increased assistance to the Northern Triangle, including USD255 million in assistance to meet immediate and urgent humanitarian needs for people in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, refugees, other displaced people, and vulnerable...

2021 28 April

A major food transfer program in Bangladesh fell short during the COVID-19 pandemic

David Martin | COVID19 food security Malnutrition Nutrition SUN Civil Society Network, SUN Country Network 0

* A blog by Shyamal Chowdhury, Nahian Bin Khaled, Kalyani Raghunthan, Shahidur Rashid and Honor Dearlove originally published by IFPRI Bangladesh’s March-May 2020 COVID-19 lockdown has had severe consequences for the incomes and food security of poor households. Public food transfer programs have traditionally been the...

2021 26 April

Escalating conflict in northern Mozambique pushes thousands into hunger

David Martin | Child nutrition food security Humanitarian field Hunger SUN Country Network, SUN UN Network 0

Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province is in the grips of a spiralling crisis as thousands of people flee their homes amidst violence, warns the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). “People have scattered in many different directions since the recent attacks in Palma, Cabo Delgado Province. Survivors...

2021 20 April

School feeding programme in Tajikistan with the support of WFP and Russia

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

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Tajikistan inaugurated a bakery in Pani district, the eighth such bakery WFP has helped build with funding from Russia. A steady supply of bread made in these bakeries will be...

2021 25 March

Call for urgent and at-scale action to avert rising hunger and risk of famine in over 20 countries

David Martin | Child nutrition COVID19 food security Humanitarian field Hunger Malnutrition SUN Country Network, SUN UN Network 0

Acute hunger is set to soar in over 20 countries in the coming months without urgent and scaled-up assistance, warn the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) in a new report issued today. Yemen, South Sudan and northern Nigeria top the...

2021 09 March

Pandemic derails historic advances in children’s access to school meals

David Martin | Child nutrition Education food security school meals SUN Country Network, SUN UN Network 0

The COVID-19 pandemic risks reversing a decade of hard-won gains in global efforts to provide nutritious food to the world’s most vulnerable children through a free daily meal in school, the United Nations World Food Programme said in a its new report released. One in two...

2021 08 March

Empowering women and girls is crucial to ensure sustainable food security in the aftermath of COVID-19

David Martin | Agriculture COVID19 food security International Women's Day SUN Country Network, SUN UN Network 0

Hunger and famine will persist and there will be unequal recovery from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic unless more women in rural and urban areas hold leadership positions with increased decision-making power, say the heads of the three United Nations' food agencies ahead of...