In a statement issued late Monday, the WFP said that as of the last quarter of 2023, some 59 million people, or nearly 20 percent of the total population in East Africa, were suffering from acute food insecurity. According to data from WFP, the level of food insecurity in the eastern Af...
ADDIS ABABA, June 17 (Xinhua) -- The Horn of Africa could face "unprecedented food unavailability problems" in 2023 due to ongoing drought and food supply shortages caused by the Russia-Ukraine conflict, David Beasley Executive Director of the UN World Food Program (WFP) has warned. "The dro...
child-sensitive social protectionfood insecurityframing policyICSWRecognized as a multifaceted challenge, food security is high on the political and socio-economic agendas of many countries. Gaining a better understanding of the multidimensional nature of the challenge of food insecurity in Africa, ...
Nanotechnology as a foundational tool to combat global food insecurity Melanie Kah, Cristina Sabliov, Yi Wang, Jason C. White21 July 2023 Pages 772-775 View PDF Article preview select article Food sovereignty: An inclusive model for feeding the world and cooling the planet Review articleOpen arch...
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 ...
We study the possibility of forecasting one of the core dimensions of food insecurity by means of a unique data set of daily sub-national time series of the prevalence of people with insufficient food consumption, in six countries in West Africa and the Middle East: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ma...
Any reading above 50 represents an expansion, and Nigerian PMIs have remained in positive territory for the past three months. However, the full-year average declined from 53.9 in 2022 to 50.4 in 2023. Pieter Scribante, senior political economist at Oxford Economics Africa, said that ...
The regional composition of the global population is assumed to change with each population growth scenario. Specifically, the SSP3 scenario used as our baseline scenario exhibits the highest regional population growth rate in Asia, the Middle East and Africa. While the emissions intensities of the ...
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...
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). ...