WFP established the “Berd cooperative” aggregating local farmers into a formal partnership to develop sustainable and nutrition-sensitive food value chains by strengthening farmers’ economic capacity to grow and preserve food, through the use of solar energy.
The EU’s funding will be used to scale up WFP’s cash transfers operations to reach families hardest-hit by the impacts of a poor harvest, rising food prices and the prolonged secondary effects of COVID-19 in the rural, urban and peri-urban areas of the Manzini, Lubombo and Hhohho regions.
It was intended for both accountability and learning and focuses on assessing: i) the appropriateness and coherence of the operation; ii) its results; and iii) the factors explaining the results.
The World Food Programme Rwanda Country Office conducted a market assessment in October 2017, to understand beneficiary purchasing power along three sites, where Saemaul Zero Hunger Communities (SZHC) project is implemented, to gather enough evidence for further strategic decisions.
The central question for the assessment was: Do beneficiaries have enough purchasing power to cover their basic
Hunger is a constant threat in Kenya’s arid north. Families struggle to get through the cyclical droughts that erode their meagre assets, leaving them worse off with every shock.
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Arriving at the Ukrainian border, you get a sense that you’re entering a conflict zone. You are greeted with huge barricades, young soldiers fortifying them with sandbags.
That feeling stays with you: this is unsafe territory. Driving into Ukraine, for every car I saw I probably saw three massive tractors hauling agricultural equipment.