High costs of fuel and food – the latter has risen by 62 percent year-on-year – are putting staples like rice and cooking oil increasingly out of reach for many.
Interview by Aina Andrianalizaha
“We don't count sleepless nights anymore,” says Theodore Mbainaissem, who heads the World Food Programme (WFP) sub-office in Ambovombe, southern Madagascar.
“Seeing the physical condition of people extremely affected by hunger who can no longer stand … children who are completely emaciated, the elderly who are skin and bone … these images are unbeara
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WFP and Oxfam America launched the R4 Rural Resilience Initiative (R4) in 2011 to enable vulnerable rural families to increase their food and income security by managing climate-related risks.
Hundreds of schools have shuttered in Somalia this year amid a searing drought that pushed the East African nation to the edge of famine and risks erasing learning opportunities for thousands of children.
In Cape Verde and Sri Lanka, soaring food prices have deepened hunger and count among a mix of factors making state-run school meals programmes too costly for struggling governments.
This decentralized endline evaluation was commissioned by the WFP Bangladesh Country Office and covers the USDA McGovern Dole 2017-2020 grant. It was carried out in 2020 and finalized in 2021.
The endline evaluation was commissioned under the requirements of the USDA grant and serves several critical purposes intended for accountability and learning.
The floods hit West Africa as world leaders prepare to meet on the climate crisis at COP27 in Egypt and highlight the urgent need to help communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis adapt, expand solutions that address loss and damage incurred during climate-related disasters, and invest in climate action in fragile contexts.
“Families in West Africa have already been pushed to the limi
As another dawn breaks on the barren, dusty mountain ranges that surround Kabul, my mind is at work already. The events of the past few days, since the Taliban took over the capital, replay in my head - the gunshots, the anxiety of our Afghan colleagues.
CERFAM’s Bulletin is a quarterly publication intended to inform about good practices and progress in Food and Nutrition Security in West and Central Africa and in Africa.