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On 15 July 2019, the latest edition of The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World will be launched by five UN agencies – The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Food Programme (WFP), and the World Health Organization (WHO). The report gives an updated estimate of th

"It is an honour for us to work together with the WFP office in Havana with the aim of addressing this challenging situation,” said the UAE Ambassador, Bader Almatrooshi. “We look forward to the benefits that this collaboration will bring to the Cuban people." The tornado destroyed the grain unloader that services ships at the José Antonio Echeverría pier in the municipality of Regla.

Most of these families are subsistence farmers and daily wage labourers, who have lost their crops to the drought in the departments of Choluteca, Valle, La Paz, El Paraíso y Francisco Morazán. “Climate change and its consequences have resulted in more and more people now seeing emigration as the only way out.

 The latest numbers on how many people are facing acute hunger worldwide will be revealed on Tuesday, 2 April 2019, in Brussels at the high-level launch of this year’s edition of the Global Report on Food Crises.The Global Report brings together regional and national data and analysis to present the latest global picture of acute food and nutrition insecurity and its trends and drivers.

After thorough consultations, food security and nutrition experts from 15 organizations have released a third version of the IPC Technical Manual. In addition to the IPC's Acute Food Insecurity scale, it incorporates two new scales, measuring chronic food insecurity and acute malnutrition.

As it happens, Yeimer does not know where the school snack — mashed potatoes, a lentil burger and a rice shake — he wolfed down at school at 10 a.m. on 2 March came from. He did not question himself about it, nor did he discuss it with Brayan, Anderson, Dairis or any of his classmates. He did not ask his Maths or Social Sciences teachers about it.

By David Fernández and Simona Beltrami Gerson Alexander Vásquez stands cradling his newborn daughter in his arms, trying to soothe her as she cries incessantly. The room around him is strewn with mattresses and blankets.

New York – The situation in the eight places in the world with the highest number of people in need of emergency food support shows that the link between conflict and hunger remains all too persistent and deadly, according to a new report released today by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP).

On a recent visit to the country the heads of the United Nations food agencies met people affected by devastating back-to-back droughts and saw what was being done to build communities' resilience to withstand such shocks and avoid being plunged back into crisis. Hadra Abdi is facing the worst drought that she can remember.