This assessment, published jointly by WFP and the UK Met Office, outlines how climate risks impact household food security and livelihoods in Sudan. The aim of this assessment is to inform climate change adaptation policies and programs.
In Lao PDR, 44 percent of children under 5 years of age are stunted as a result of a poor diet, often lacking in essential micronutrients, fats and proteins as well as experiencing recurrent illness.
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
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report released today in Juba by the Government of South Sudan in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Food Programme (WFP) shows that the number of people who are acutely food insecure has already increased by 13 per cent since January
The main focus of this assessment was to estimate and update the food security situation in districts within the Savanna Agro-ecological Zone of the country where the operations of WFP are concentrated. Data was collected from 6,118 households across 49 districts in five regions between February and early March 2016.
Recent advances in Earth Observation (EO)-related technologies and products have made data increasingly more accessible and enables the development of near real-time flood monitoring applications. WFP have commissioned this report by the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) to explore how it can take advantage of the technologies for flood early warning and monitoring.
This report provides an analysis of the market prices of the key commodities that make up the in-kind food basket as compared to the cash transfer value distributed by WFP to the refugee beneficiaries.
The Monthly Price Monitoring Bulletin is by the Technical Working Group on Price Monitoring for Food Security (TWG-PMFS) chaired by the Ministry of Economy and participated by the Ministry of Agriculture and Melioration, the National Bank, the National Statistics Committee and the National Institute for Strategic Study, with the technical support of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) an