The pace of progress in halving the number of children who are stunted and in reducing the number of babies born with low birth weight is too slow, which also puts the SDG 2 nutrition targets further out of reach, according to the report.
At the same time, adding to these challenges, overweight and obesity continue to increase in all regions, particularly among school-age children and adults.
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is testing governments' abilities to manage risk as never before. Livelihoods are stretched to breaking point, with a staggering 130 million additional people at risk of slipping into severe hunger before the end of the year.
Countries face not only the pandemic itself but also collisions with other regional and global problems.
WFP India in collaboration with the Government of Kerala implemented a pilot project on fortification of THR distributed in the brand name ‘Amrutham nutrimix’ through ICDS scheme to children aged 6-36 months in Wayanad district of Kerala.
As a young man growing up in Harfa village in north east of Quneitra governorate, Shareef dreamt of moving to Syria's capital city of Damascus to work in construction.
"I was always fascinated by building things and I wanted to pursue construction as a young man," said Shareef, who realised his dream and helped build many buildings in Syria's capital in the 1960s and 1970s.
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A market analysis has been performed in 22 markets in Grande-Anse, Nippes and Sud Departments of Haiti. These departments have been the most affected by the hurricane Matthew which left a large part of the southwestern tip of Haiti devastated on 4th October 2016.
By Amelia StewartIt's the peak of the rainy season in the Central African Republic (C.A.R.). The downpours are heavy, the foliage is a thick lovely green but the earth roads are muddy and mostly impassable.
In Yemen, there is no such thing as breakfast, lunch and dinner. Not any more. In fact, for many people, there is hardly such a thing as eating at all.
Conflict has seen to it. A harvest is virtually non-existent, while death is ever present.
The article highlights the UN's Joint Programme on Accelerating Progress towards the Economic Empowerment of Rural Women — backed by UN Women, Food and Agriculture Organization, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, and the World Food Programme (WFP).
The Bahoneza Cooperative operates in one of the last remaining forest areas of Rwanda, in the southern Nyaguru Distr
Overview of the School Meals Programme in Lao PDR including programme coverage, activities, sustainability, results, beneficiary perspective, funding and partners.