The rice miller training module is intended to be used for the training of rice millers on rice fortification. Rice fortification as a technique is new to India and its rice millers.
The report – released today by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UNHABITAT) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) – shines a spotlight on urban vulnerabilities and food insecurity amidst the global pandemic, revealing that the urban poor in Africa have been disproportionately affected.
The analysis reveals that the urban poor often rely on the informal economy, live in
“Without the mangroves there is no life for us,” says Rosa of the swamp area that serves as a protective ecosystem for the community of Punta de Miguel near Ecuador’s border with Colombia.
Here, in the Mira-Mataje Mangrove Reserve, she goes out picking mangrove oysters – these provide a source of nutrition for her family, and she can also sell them on to earn an income.
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Overarching evaluation questions focused on: (i) Have literacy rates of school-age children improved over the duration of the programme? (ii) Has the use of health and dietary practices increased? (iii) What is the level of community involvement and participation in decision-making in school governance mechanisms?
Around 1.14 million people in the south of Madagascar are facing high levels of acute food insecurity, of which nearly 14 000 people are in ‘Catastrophe’ (Phase 5 – the highest in the five-step scale of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC).
This is the first time that people have been recorded in Phase 5 in Madagascar since the IPC methodology was introduced in 2016.
Since the inception of COVID-19, five rounds of Take-home rations (THR) have been conducted by WFP in Cambodia to provide safety nets for the poorest families participating in school feeding in target provinces to help reduce negative coping strategies, and help children stay engaged in their education.
British Ambassador David Ashley said: “I am pleased that the UK is able to contribute further to the humanitarian response in the south of Madagascar, following our grant to UNICEF earlier in the year. Our new grant to WFP will enable 100,000 people to access sufficient food over a period of five months.
The main objectives of the evaluation were to assess and report on the performance and results of the two programmes evaluated to help WFP present high-quality and credible evidence to the two donors (accountability).
Available for interview at IFEMA, Feria de Madrid, from 5 – 13 December are:
Gernot Laganda, Chief of the WFP Climate and Disaster Risk Reduction Programmes Unit, to discuss the challenges of achieving zero hunger in the face of a changing climate and WFP’s solutions in different parts of the world (interviews in English and German).
Kathryn Milliken, Senior Climate Change Advisor, to highl
Djibouti, in the Horn of Africa, has recently graduated to low-middle-income country status. Despite recent economic growth, poverty rates stand at 79 percent, with 42 percent of the population living in extreme poverty.