“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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Over the years, Pakistan has become a food surplus country and a major producer of wheat which it distributes to needy populations through various mechanisms, including the World Food Programme (WFP).
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 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
Streets in South Sudan's capital Juba are aptly named: CPA, Addis Ababa, Referendum, Independence and Unity. Juba City Council says that these echo the main milestones in the country's history since 2011.
CPA is short for the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement that sought to end the Second Sudanese Civil War. Several peace agreements were brokered in Addis Ababa only to be broken.