"We do not live well, we do not eat well, and we cannot even move around normally because of the chaos in the country," says Osena Previlon, who grows fruit and vegetables on her small plot of land outside Gonaives, the largest city in Haiti's Artibonite department.
Haiti ranks high among countries identified by the World Food Programme (WFP) as being at risk of descending further into cris
"We need help, now. We have been flooded out of our homes!"
As soon as I step out of the boat, Jean-Rivel, an energetic elder, greets me with a torrent of information about the disaster that has just hit his community.
The endline evaluation of the pilot project revealed that Malkangiri district possesses ample capacity for producing and distributing FR, with multiple quality checks in place to ensure that high-quality FR reaches the intended beneficiaries.
"Every time I arrive at a school to deliver food for school meals, I'm welcomed by children joyfully shouting ‘Porridge! Porridge! Porridge!" — Stanley, Driver, Malawi
"I have on more than three occasions slept on the road when my truck got stuck in the mud or when the roads were impassable due to poor conditions.
Haiti is the poorest country in the Latin America and the Caribbean region and among the poorest in the world. Hunger is tightening its grip as insecurity, violence and deepening economic woes combine with climate-related shocks and other disasters.
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.
The urgent and lasting solutions needed to achieve SDG 2 require change across multiple levels, with the World Food Programme working every day to raise awareness and encourage positive action.
Millets are traditionally a staple food in semi-arid tropics and drought-prone regions in India. They are of high nutritional benefits providing food security and can be considered ideal crops of the 21st Century where we face depleting natural resources and an era of climate change.
Lack or near absence of production support schemes like minimum support price is the key limitation for the production of small millet crops in the country. This has promoted monoculture farming practices which in turn jeopardize the crop diversity, and loss of area under highly nutritious small millets.
Millets are traditionally and culturally accepted staple food that require very low input costs. Are easily grown in water stress areas and period of maturation is comparatively lower. They are highly nutritious and provide food security, making them an ideal crop of the 21st Century, especially in view of changing climate increasing population stress.