ACCRA, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- Food insecurity affected 24 million more people in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) between 2015 and last year, says a UN official, citing the 2016 State of Food Insecurity (SOFI) report by the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). In an interview on the repo...
Define Food crises. Food crises synonyms, Food crises pronunciation, Food crises translation, English dictionary definition of Food crises. n. 1. A drastic, wide-reaching food shortage. 2. A drastic shortage; a dearth. 3. Severe hunger; starvation. 4. Ar
Food insecurity, defined as the lack of physical or economic access to safe, nutritious and sufficient food, remains one of the main challenges included in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Near real-time data on the food insecurity situation
TANA RIVER, Kenya, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on Thursday blamed food insecurity in coastal Kenya especially in Tana River county to over reliance on rainfed farming. Joseph Mathooko, FAO field monitoring officer said for the region to re...
Food insecurity affects people around the globe: Asia, Europe, North America, Africa, and beyond. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), upward of 2.3 billion people worldwide lacked access to adequate food in 2020. ...
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is a specialized agency that leads international efforts to defeat hunger and eliminate food insecurity and all forms of malnutrition. FAO's mandate covers all aspects of agrifood systems from food production (agricultural and non-...
1.1. Defining food insecurity dynamics This sub-section offers a working definition of food insecurity dynamics. FI dynamics refer to the movement from food security in year 1, to food insecurity in year 2 and vice versa. For a simple understanding of FI dynamics, Fig. 1 has been plotted fo...
"One of the most important findings (in the report) is that ... the percentage of the assessed population in acute food insecurity remained stubbornly high in 2023," FAO Director of Emergencies and Resilience Rein Paulsen warned. The root causes were wars, extreme climate events, and economic...
FAO, IFAD, and WFP. The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2015: Meeting the 2015 International Hunger Targets: Taking Stock of Uneven Progress. Rome: FAO, 2015 McGuire, S. (2015). FAO, IFAD and WFP: The state of food insecurity in the world: Meeting the 2015 international hunger ...
-- The ongoing desert locust outbreak could further trigger serious food insecurity in east Africa as some 20.2 million people presently facing severe acute food insecurity in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) ...