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The collaboration capitalises on Egypt’s ClimaTech Run global competition that supports entrepreneurs and innovators with the aim of addressing the most pressing climate and food security challenges in the country. The ‘Climate Adaptation Innovation Accelerator Programme’ (CAIAP) programme, is supported by the UN Adaptation Fund and is part of the Adaptation Fund Climate Innovation Accelerator’

The latest conflict in the Eastern DRC has resulted in catastrophic conditions for the local population. Fierce fighting has, over the past two weeks, moved 25 kilometres’ west of Goma towards the town of Sake, where children and their families are caught in a deadly crossfire. “Children in DRC need peace now,” said Grant Leaity, UNICEF Representative in the DRC.

 Hoe in hand, Godelive Niyonagira heads to her fields in the quiet hills of Muyinza village, some 130 km south of Rwanda’s capital Kigali. The warm sun chases away a chilly wind that sweeps through the high slopes.Niyonagira has a maize crop to manage, which fits into her bigger plan: to renovate her home and secure medical insurance.

Starting 27 June, WFP’s Sylhet Field Office, in support of Government authorities’ relief efforts, began distributing fortified biscuits to over 23,000 families to help them meet their immediate food and nutritional needs. “Our priority is to ensure that the most vulnerable families, who were already facing hardships and are now having their lives and livelihoods upended again by the floods, ca

Extreme weather has a fondness for Mozambique, one of the world’s most climate-disaster-prone countries.

This appeal follows the release of the WFP-FAO Hunger Hotspots report which warns that South Sudan is a country of highest concern where humanitarian action is essential to prevent starvation and death.WFP currently has no food supplies in South Sudan to preposition for next year’s humanitarian response and needs US$404 million to frontload assistance.

Fortifying food, alongside the promotion of a diverse, healthy, and balanced diet, helps reduce the prevalence of micronutrient deficiencies.

“Climate change is no longer a warning for the future – it is happening today for communities in the Pacific. But we also have the knowledge and the tools at our disposal to protect communities, infrastructure, and development from the devastation caused by these events,” said McCain.

“Learning with an empty stomach is hard. The school feeding programme in Afghanistan helps increase enrolment, attendance and retention in primary school, for boys and girls. School feeding improves learning abilities and the well-being of the children who are the next generation of Afghanistan”, said Raffaella Iodice, the EU Chargée d’Affaires a.i.

On 20 May Cyclone Amphan made landfall in Bangladesh heavily impacting 19 districts with more than 2.4 million people and 500,000 livestock evacuated to 15,000 cyclone shelters by the Government of Bangladesh. Bangladesh is facing a growing number of COVID-19 cases and the impact threatens to reverse development gains made over the past five decades.