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Guatemala is one of the countries of the Dry Corridor, a 1,600-kilometre arid stripe of land running along Central America’s Pacific Coast, from Southern Mexico to Costa Rica. For more than 10 million people living in these harsh lands, hunger, poverty and malnutrition are an…

A new United Nations report shows the territorial inequality of malnutrition in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. The Regional Overview of Food and Nutrition Security in Latin America and the Caribbean 2020 (Panorama 2020) analyzes child overweight and stunting in the countries…

The Global Nutrition Report launched the updated Country Nutrition Profiles and Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Commitment Tracker. Together they represent the most comprehensive source of evidence on progress to improve nutrition around the world. Country Nutrition Profiles The Country Nutrition Profiles bring together the latest…

The window to prevent famine in Yemen is narrowing as new figures reveal record highs of acute food insecurity in the country, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF warned. New Integrated Food Security…

The third phase of the SUN Movement (2021-2025) and Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit in 2021 provides a renewed focus on global nutrition. Within the global effort to improve nutrition for all, governments’ ownership and leadership in adopting national multisectoral nutrition plans and strategies remains…

The Food Security and Nutrition Programme in Kyrgyzstan for 2019-2023 is a nationwide cross-sectoral policy, aimed at ensuring food security and high-quality nutrition for every Kyrgyz citizen. With the support of the SUN Movement Pooled Fund, Civil Society Alliance SUN Kyrgyzstan was able to integrate…

The study “The cost of the double burden of malnutrition: social and economic impact in Honduras” was presented by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) with the Government of Honduras, through the Health…

More than three billion people live in agricultural areas with high to very high levels of water shortages and scarcity, and almost half of them face severe constraints. Furthermore, available freshwater resources per person have declined by more than 20 percent over the past two…

[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” text_align=”left”][vc_column][vc_column_text custom_options=””] Before the COVID19 pandemic, several Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) member countries indicated their ambition to hold national Resource Mobilization events in the future (2018/2019 SUN Joint annual assessments, 2019 SUN Global Gathering in Katmandu). The recent outbreak and the projected…

* Originally Published by the World Bank Tajikistan, as one of the most remittance-reliant economies in the world, was hit particularly hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. Like in any economic crisis, the brunt of the impact is being borne by lower-income households and especially by…

The United Nations released USD 100 million of emergency funding to stave off the risk of famine in seven countries most at risk from a hunger epidemic fueled by conflict, economic decline, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. Mark Lowcock, head of the UN Office…

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Haiti welcomes a contribution of €2 million from the European Union (EU) that will provide emergency cash assistance to 27,000 severely food insecure people over four months and support the coordination of humanitarian actors on food security…

Millions of people in Central America urgently need food assistance in the wake of Hurricane Eta, one of the worst storms in decades, as fears grow of another storm brewing in the coming days. Heavy rains, high winds, deadly landslides and floods unleashed by Eta…

* Originally published by the UN Network Peru is the first country in Latin America to conduct a Nutrition Stakeholder and Action Mapping exercise, one of the UNN analytics designed to guide countries in strengthening nutrition multi-sectorality and scale-up. The tool gives stakeholders a comprehensive picture of…