“We are here today to explore the available opportunities to create new nutrition-sensitive food value chains, provide new favourable conditions to attract investors, establish new businesses and turn investments in food value chains into profitable businesses that will end food insecurity and malnutrition” said WFP Representative and Country Director in Armenia Jelena Milosevic in her welcoming n
Glasgow/Bonn/Rome, 10 November 2021 – Weather-related disasters have increased fivefold in the past 50 years alone. Humanity, and especially vulnerable communities, are only starting to adapt to the new reality of weather extremes.
The report found that many hotspots face growing hunger crises and highlights the worrying multiplier effect that simultaneous and overlapping shocks are having on acute food insecurity. Conflict, climate extremes, and economic shocks continue to drive vulnerable households into food crises.
The situation in Hodeidah continues to alarm me. There is major population displacement — more than 300,000 people so far. Cholera is again fast becoming a major health threat. Two-thirds of the population are hungry, and 8.4 million people face severe hunger and close to famine like conditions.
This is a sad list to report on.
Everyone agrees peace is needed.
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On April 10th, 1815, 6,000 miles away from here, on an island in Indonesia, a volcano erupted. It sent a massive plume of ash into the air that eventually encircled the globe.
Niger continues to face chronic vulnerabilities caused mainly by poverty, regional insecurity, demographic pressure, economic and climatic shocks, chronic food insecurity, and persistent gender inequalities.
The funds will help WFP support through Cash for Work projects 18,000 people vulnerable people who have been directly affected by the pandemic’s socio-economic impact.
WFP will use US$2.25 million from the contribution to continue supporting the national school feeding programme for 180,000 school children across the country by providing canned fish from Japan and other locally produced foods purchased from women and young smallholder farmers.
US$ 50,000 will be used to purchase premixed corn and soy flour with micronutrients for the treatment of 2,000 childr