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“As far as I’m concerned, we shouldn’t be talking about food security in Africa more than five years from now. There’s no reason for it,” he told Reuters. “We have the technology and the financing to do it at scale.”
Recent estimates from the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) forecast that up to 26 million people will face a food crisis or higher levels of food insecurity in Somalia, and parts of Ethiopia and Kenya by the en...
ADDIS ABABA, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- Strong collaboration is needed as the number of food insecure people on the African continent increased as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic worsened the situation, Vera Songwe, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNEC...
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...
Today, public officials recognize that food insecurity is affecting everyone, not just the inner-city poor, and that policies seeking to restructure the production and distribution of food to the tens of millions of people living in ... D Nordahl - Island Press 被引量: 70发表: 2009年 Difficu...
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...
Additionally, supporting governmental policies that address the root causes of poverty and make food more affordable and accessible forvulnerablehouseholds can also reduce food insecurity. In about half of U.S. states, the value of food assistance funds is doubled when it is spent on produce at ...
"More than a billion people in Africa cannot afford a healthy diet," said Haile-Gabriel, warning that Africa is moving backwards in its effort to deal with hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition. He indicated that an additional 46 million Africans have gone hungry over the last two years du...
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...