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 R4 Rural Resilience Initiative (R4) is a strategic partnership between Oxfam America (OA) and the UN World Food Programme (WFP). R4 was initiated in 2011 to respond to the challenges faced by food-insecure communities enduring increasingly frequent and intense climate disasters and other shocks.
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.
Based on data from buyers in 17 countries, this paper confirms that in the majority of P4P pilot countries, in addition to the local procurement of WFP, there are private and public markets for the quality crops produced by smallholder farmers. More research is recommended to fully understand buyers' quality and premium requirements and therefore the level of demand in each country.
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
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.
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.
The external mid-term evaluation of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) McGovern Dole (MGD)-supported World Food Program (WFP) School Feeding Program (SFP) in Kenya covers the period from September 2013 to December 2014.
The Evaluation was designed to: 1.
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.