Linking drivers of food insecurity and ecosystem services in Africadoi:10.3389/fsufs.2024.1272332Aryee, Gregory AyiteyDias Sardinha, IdalinaBranquinho, CristinaFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
ADDIS ABABA, March 19 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has called for urgent support from the international donor community as millions suffer from acute food insecurity in East Africa. In a statement issued late Monday, the WFP said that as of the last quarter of 2...
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-Ukraine conflict, David Beasley has warned. (Xinhua/Michael Tewelde)...
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
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In sub-Saharan Africa, the food system impacts on a number of urban development issues such as poverty, unemployment and poor health. Informal traders meet the food needs of many poor urban households. However, supermarket chains are changing this, demanding particular policy and planning responses...
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...
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...
ADDIS ABABA, May 5 (Xinhua) -- Food insecurity is rapidly worsening in Eastern Africa as an estimated 81.6 million people including internally displaced people (IDPs), refugees and host communities in rural and urban areas are facing high acute food insecurity, the United Nations World Food Prog...
“This year, recovering domestic industries, higher foreign investments, and easing inflation are upside risks,” Scribante added. “In contrast, downside risk factors are sticky prices, exchange rate weakness, oil price volatility, and domestic insecurity.”...