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Niger is a landlocked country in the Sahel. With nearly 80 percent of its population living in rural areas, soil degradation and limited access to arable land and water are major drivers of food insecurity. About 3.2 million people are acutely food insecure.  

The “Rajasthan Food and Nutrition Security Analysis Report, 2023” provides a mechanism to monitor the performance of  Rajasthan on various targets and indicators of SDG. This report analyses Food and Nutrition Security through framework of its four pillars- Food Availability, Food Accessibility, Food Utilization and Food Stability.

For this reason, today’s statement is a joint one, delivered on behalf of the three UN agencies most involved in food security and nutrition in Nigeria the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), UNICEF, and WFP.

Aiming  to  fill  this  knowledge  gap,  considering  that  other  assessments  looked  at  topics  affecting  agriculture  such  as  desertification,  seawater  intrusion,  and  effects  from  the  armed  conflict,  however,  these  projects  did  n

To reduce extreme poverty, the Government of Tanzania introduced the Productive Social Safety Net (PSSN) based on integrated interventions including a labour-intensive public works and cash transfers programme targeting the poorest households. The objective of the PSSN, which is implemented by the Tanzania Social Action Fund (TASAF), is to increase income and consumption, improve the ability to

Climate change is a long-term threat to food security and nutrition. By 2050, the risk of hunger and malnutrition could rise by 20 percent if the global community fails to act now to mitigate and prevent the adverse effects of climate change. The majority of child deaths expected to occur as a result of climate change will be driven by undernutrition.

WFP provides Syrian refugees and refugees of other nationalities with cash-based assistance through electronic cards, allowing them to meet their basic needs by either buying food items in any of 400+ contracted shops across Lebanon or withdrawing cash from ATMs to spend on what they need.

The situation is particularly worrying in conflict-affected areas of the Lake Chad Basin and the Liptako-Gourma region (Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger), where 25,500 people will experience catastrophic hunger (phase 5) during the June-August 2023 lean season.

ROME – According to the latest Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC), nearly 282 million people in 59 countries and territories experienced high levels of acute hunger in 2023 - a worldwide increase of 24 million from the previous year.

Millions of Zimbabweans pushed into hunger by prolonged drought and economic crisis face an increasingly desperate situation unless adequate funding for a major relief operation materialises quickly, the United Nations World Food Programme has warned. With nearly eight million people – half the population – now food insecure, WFP plans to double the number of people it assists - up to 4.1 million