Food security

The African Continental Free Trade Area is expected to significantly stimulate intra-African trade, increase income and food security, and to reduce the continent’s external dependency. However, its success needs to be…

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Food security

Enhancing agricultural trade within the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is essential to increase resilience to shocks and build a more food-secure West Africa. Although the ECOWAS Commission has…

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Food security

The impacts of the Ukraine crisis on food prices world-wide have highlighted just how globalised the commodity flows have also become in the agrifood sector. This is of no benefit to most farmers, our author maintains,…

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Land governance

Many vulnerable populations in sub-Saharan Africa are encircled by resource enclosures or land grabs while imperilled by food insecurity, livelihood vulnerability and climate shocks, which leads to conflicts. This…

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Food security

Inequalities in food security and nutrition, between countries and regions and within countries, communities and households, exist throughout the world. This report shows the urgent need to address these inequalities and…

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Food security

Water and food security are closely linked. WFP and UNEP agree to work together to improve food, water and environmental security in vulnerable communities.

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Food security

Over a quarter of a billion people were facing acute food insecurity in 2022. This number has increased for the fourth year in a row, according to a new report.

 

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Food security

Partnerships need to be enhanced to prevent and treat acute malnutrition among children and promote climate-smart programmes that help to reduce the region's high vulnerability to climate shocks and the risk of natural…

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Food security

Acute malnutrition threatens the lives of millions of children. UN agencies call for a coordinated response to meet the needs of this growing food crisis before it’s too late.

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Food security

The Global Alliance for Food Security (GAFS), jointly convened by the German Group of Seven (G7) Presidency and the World Bank Group, launched the Global Food and Nutrition Security Dashboard as a key tool to fast-track…

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