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The report – released today by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UNHABITAT) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) – shines a spotlight on urban vulnerabilities and food insecurity amidst the global pandemic, revealing that the urban poor in Africa have been disproportionately affected. The analysis reveals that the urban poor often rely on the informal economy, live in

Responding to the impacts of Covid-19, the Home Grown School Feeding project will provide nutritious and safe school meals to vulnerable primary school children by linking the National School Meal Programme with local smallholder farmers.

Overall food security classification shows that half of the population in Karamoja (50%) is food insecure, of which 12% were found to be severely food insecure.

The evaluation assessed the following activities: Treatment of acute moderate malnutrition among children 6-59 months and pregnant and lactating women; prevention of chronic malnutrition; Food by Prescription for ART/TB clients and support to their families; school meals; and food for assets.   The evaluation, which makes a number of recommendations for the future, was managed and conduct

This report presents findings from the PAB (pre-assistance baseline) data that was collected from June to December 2015.

The situation is particularly worrying in the areas hardest hit by the 2019 floods, where food security has deteriorated significantly since last June according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report released today by the Government of South Sudan, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World

As the Rohingya refugee crisis unfolded on our TV screens and social media feeds, none of us could quite imagine the sheer horrors witnessed by hundreds of thousands of people who continued to risk their lives, crossing the border between Myanmar and Bangladesh during every minute of every night and day.

Nutrition surveys carried out in June 2016 show that the rates of acute malnutrition are above 20 percent in four counties (Turkana, Marsabit, Mandera and East Pokot (in Baringo)) and 15 percent in West Pokot. An additional four counties (Samburu, Tana River, Garissa and Wajir) have serious acute malnutrition levels (10-14 percent).

Highlights From 9 to 13 November, food security partners including government, UN and NGO representatives met in Nouakchott to conduct the vulnerability classification exercise using the harmonized framework methodology. An estimated 150,000 people are severely food insecure (HF Phase III-Crisis) country wide , meaning they do not get sufficient food to live an healthy life.

Two consecutive seasons of poor harvests led to a nearly 50 percent drop in production coupled with reduced imports of food grains due to foreign exchange constraints, according to the joint FAO/WFP Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission (CFSAM) report. The report notes that immediate food assistance and livelihood programmes - including through existing social assistance mechanisms – are cr