2022. The Horn of Africa drought has thrust at least 18.4 million people, including more than 7.1 million acutely malnourished children, into severe food insecurity, UN humanitarians said on Monday. Most drought victims are in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia. (Xinhua/Dong Jianghui) ...
Executive Director of the UN World Food Program (WFP) David Beasley speaks during a briefing in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on June 16, 2022. The Horn of Africa could face "unprecedented food unavailability problems" in 2023 due to ongoing drought and food supply shortages caused by the Russia-Ukr...
2013. Self-reported food insecurity in Africa during the food price crisis. Food Policy 39(1): 51-63.Verpoorten, Marijke, Abhimanyu Arora, Nik Stoop, and Johan Swinnen (2013) "Self-reported food insecurity in Africa during the food price crisis," Food Policy, Vol. 39, pp. 51-63....
Food insecurity, the limited or uncertain access to nutritious food, which also includes limitations on the ability to obtain nutritious food in ways that are socially acceptable. Approximately 2.4 billion people worldwide (some 29.6 percent of the human
in 2022 some 2.4 billion people—about 29.6 percent of the world population—experienced moderate to severe limitations in access to food. Such widespreadfood insecurityis linked to various factors, especially conflict, local and national economic decline, poorly performing agricultural markets, and incre...
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...
It is imperative to arrest the AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa to improve the food security and economic growth for the region. Food insecurity, poverty, migration, gender inequality, and youth unemployment are major contributors towards the spread of HIV. This makes the HIV/AIDS epidemic ...
A quantitative research method was deployed and a stratified random sample of 300 was used to collect data in Bophelong, a low income neighborhood in South Africa. The Coping Strategies Index (CSI) and Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) were used to measure the food security status...
Dependent on imports of those items to feed its large population, Bangladesh "faces the prospect of rising food insecurity," according to a report from the IFPRI in late April. While summer harvests will bring more supplies to the market, prices will remain high for the next several months, ...
The two-day meeting is being held under the theme of the year "Building resilience in nutrition on the African continent: Accelerate the Human Capital, Social and Economic Development." "Africa is not on track to meeting the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 targets to end hunger and ensur...