In fact, cross-referencing this dataset with countries with the highest food insecurity reveals several correlations, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa: Madagascar, Rwanda, and Burundi to name a few.Finally, a pregnant mother’s exposure to hazardous substances—like tobacco smoke—can also affect ...
In Egypt, high food inflation has pushed residents to low-cost high-calorie meals. To combat food insecurity, the government subsidizes bread, wheat flour, sugar and cooking oil, many of which are the ingredients linked to weight gain. In Qatar, a country with one of the highest per ...
Food importsAfrican countriesPanel regressionFixed effects modelPredictorsIt has been envisaged that Sub-Saharan Africa would remain the region with the highest level of food insecurity over the 2015-2025 period. This study, thereforeOke, David
The "Hunger Hotspots - FAO-WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity" report assesses 16 hunger hotspots around the world, analyzing their outlook for the period November 2024-March 2025. Sudan, Palestine, South Sudan, Haiti and Mali are the countries considered to be "at the highest concern...
The joint report, entitled "Hunger Hotspots: FAO-WFP Early Warnings On Acute Food Insecurity June to September 2022 Outlook" and published early this week, said acute food insecurity continues to escalate globally. Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen remain at the highest alert level as in...
Using child malnutrition as a proxy (along with descriptive controls for non-food determinants of malnutrition), the paper finds little correlation between national food availabilities and food insecurity. The group of countries that exhibit the highest severity of food insecurity are those with high ...
Address people's vulnerabilities before, during and after crisis with sustainable context-specific responses and solutions. Rethink food and agricultural systems so as to make them flexible and able to deliver food security and nutrition in a way that corresponds to the current realities. ...
Seasonal food insecurity coincides with peak energy demands during agricultural work periods, which, in turn, leads to undernutrition among pregnant and lactating mothers and their children17,36,51. Women working in agriculture often have less time to spend with their children, which can reduce the...
With the new funding, CERF has allocated over 170 million dollars to address rising food insecurity in these seven and other countries in the past six months.■
and various approaches tofood institutionsprovide a more nuanced picture. Pritchard et al. note that large Southern countries have responded to the threat of food insecurity since the global food price rises from 2007 by ‘moving in’ with new entitlements and protections, as the food crises broug...